Japanese satellite operator Sky Perfect JSat announced that it will use SpaceX’s interstellar spacecraft to send its “Superbird-9” communication satellite in 2024 into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Sky Perfect did not disclose details of the terms of the deal. This is another Japanese customer who is scheduled to use the starship after the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa.
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As SpaceX’s next-generation space transportation system, the company believes that Starship will make it a reality for humans to colonize Mars and explore deep space. The entire Starship launch system consists of a super heavy booster and a 50-meter-tall Starship, equipped with multiple Raptor engines, all of which can be reused. The Starship launch system has yet to complete a spaceflight, but SpaceX is preparing for its first orbital test, with Starship expected to launch from SpaceX’s South Texas facility in the coming months.
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has booked himself and several other passengers a trip around the moon in a spaceship that NASA has chosen as the centerpiece of its Artemis lunar exploration program. The first manned lunar lander. Maezawa’s trip to the moon is tentatively scheduled for 2023. While NASA plans to use Starship to send astronauts to the moon, the agency aims to launch the Artemis 3 mission in 2025 or 2026.
SkyPerfect’s Superbird 9 is a flexible high-throughput satellite that “will provide broadcast and broadband services in the Ku-band for Japan and East Asia,” a company representative said in a statement Thursday. Meet the needs of mobile services and broadband services.
