Satellite footprints

Astrocast LEO satellite constellation

Position:LEO
Manufacturer:Astrocast
Operator:Astrocast
Launch operators:Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
 SpaceX
Launch vehicles:Falcon 9
 PSLV
Launch date:
Expected lifetime:5 Years

Start-up satellite communications company Astrocast, based in Switzerland will operate the most advanced global nano-satellite IoT network to track, monitor, manage and communicate with assets in remote regions of the world. With the world’s most innovative network of 100 nano-satellites, Astrocast delivers a complete end-to-end, direct-to-orbit service that, state-of-the-art communication modules, and enterprise class services. The constellation will be completed by 2024, spanning the globe and allowing for low latency transmission.

The satellites are orbiting in a low Earth polar orbit. This allows the creation of a global network covering the entire globe, including the poles. Thanks to a dedicated frequency band, the constellation can scale without fear of noise generated by other devices. Astrocast estimates it can build, launch and operate a 64-cubesat constellation for less than 50 million USD to provide low-data-rate communications. The constellation will consist of eight operational satellites per orbital plane, and eight different orbital planes in sun-synchronous polar orbits.

The LEO satellites have a controlled lifetime of up to 5 years, providing Astrocast customers the highest performance, greatest coverage and the highest reliability from anywhere in the world.

Astrocast have launched recently 10 of their Nano-satellites into LEO orbit using reputed launch operators such as SpaceX from USA and ISRO from India. The first test satellite was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the SSO-A SmallSat mission. In January 2021 five Nano-satellites were launched and in June another five, both on a Falcon 9 launcher operated by SpaceX.

ASTROCAST Satellite Constellation

# satellites Mission Launch Date Launcher Launch Provider
1 SSO-A Dec 2nd, 2018 Falcon 9 SpaceX USA
1 EMISAT April 1st, 2019 PSLV-C45 ISRO India
5 Transporter-1 Jan 24th, 2021 Falcon 9 SpaceX USA
5 Transporter-2 June 30th, 2021 Falcon 9 SpaceX USA
4 PSLV-C54/EOS-06 Nov 26th, 2022 PSLV ISRO India
2 Transporter–6 Jan 3rd, 2023 Falcon 9 SpaceX USA

Astrocast LEO satellite constellation

Astrocast CubeSat
Astrocast-nano-satellite in orbit
Astrocast cubesats
SpaceX SSO-A mission Kiwi
ISRO PSLV-C45 mission hawaii
SpaceX Transporter-1 mission
SpaceX Transporter-2 mission