Super Low Altitude Test Satellite (SLATS) or Tsubame was a JAXA satellite intended to demonstrate operations in very low Earth orbit (VLEO, below 200 km)...

started launching Starlink satellites in 2019. As of early March 2024, it consists of over 6,000 mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) that...

launched its Super Low Altitude Test Satellite, or SLATS (“Tsubame”), in 2017, whose orbit slowly decreased from an initial altitude of 630 km (391 mi)...

different satellites commonly referred to as Tsubame: TSUBAME (satellite), a small gamma-ray observatory Super Low Altitude Test Satellite, an experimental...

of Taiwan, a member of the Free Standards Group Super Low Altitude Test Satellite, a Japanese satellite Slat, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated...

tests started with the construction of the first prototype in 2018, Starhopper, which performed several static fires and two successful low-altitude flights...

Eleven test flights were of single-stage Starship spacecraft flying low-altitude tests (2019–2021), while three were orbital trajectory flights of the entire...

Izet-Unsalan, Kunsel; Unsalan, Deniz (2011). "A low cost alternative for satellites- tethered ultra-high altitude balloons". Proceedings of 5th International...

in altitude, and successfully impact. On 4 February 2015, the LRASM conducted its third successful flight test, conducted to evaluate low-altitude performance...

earlier low-altitude test flights at the SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas in preparation for the high-altitude high-velocity testing of landing test phase...

series using wooden slugs, Martlet 2C's, and a Low Altitude High-Velocity cone. Several models of test projectiles were fired or designed during Project...

visual horizon. The altitude indicated above is greater than that of the International Space Station and many low Earth orbit satellites. Large weapons could...

flight test of a booster-controlled descent from high altitude, coupled with the technological advancements made on the Grasshopper low-altitude landing...

tested on rocket test stands, and low-altitude VTVL flight testing of the Falcon 9 Grasshopper v1.0 test vehicle are done at McGregor. High-altitude,...

static fire test, and in a tethered test reached 1 meter altitude. On July 25, 2019 a Starhopper test flight reached about 20 m (66 ft) altitude, followed...

superpressure balloon (SPB) system. At 40 km altitude above sea level, the football-stadium-sized balloon carries SuperBIT (at 3500 lbs) to a suborbital environment...

high-altitude flight test of six minutes. SpaceX continued to build new upper stages, completed several first stages, and performed ground tests while...

original on 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024. "China launches test satellite using Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket". Xinhua. 11 January 2024. Archived...

first low-altitude flight test on 17 April 2014; it was lost during a three-engine test at the McGregor test site on 22 August 2014, which ended the low-velocity...

Starshield is a SpaceX program consisting of purpose-built low-Earth orbit satellites designed to provide new "disruptive" military space capabilities...

Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas. All SpaceX rocket engines are tested on rocket test stands, and low-altitude VTVL flight testing of the Falcon...

68 n m {\displaystyle \lambda =68\,\mathrm {nm} } . Low density air is much thinner. At an altitude of 104 km (342,000 ft) the mean free path is λ = 1...

incident, Orbcomm said they gathered useful test data from the mission and planned to send more satellites via SpaceX, which happened in July 2014, and...

(absolute ceiling) Rate of climb: 1,450 ft/min (7.4 m/s) "Planet Satellite: British super-plane or magnesium flop?". Hush-Kit. 16 October 2015. Retrieved...

tested during an in-orbit verification using the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X and the American Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFire) satellite....

sustainable, low-cost, ultra-light rocket". Argentina Reports. Retrieved 13 October 2022. "Argentine company wants to launch satellites from Uruguay"...

and were used on the DragonFly, a prototype low-altitude reusable rocket that was used for flight testing various aspects of the propulsive-landing technology...

space sciences included the study of cosmic radiation, high-altitude and airborne testing, deep underground experimentation at the Kolar mines—one of...

rather than via a ground station. The satellites are designed to provide jam-resistant communications with a low probability of interception. They incorporate...

milestone test paves the way toward low-rate initial production of the Arrow 3. On 19 February 2018, Arrow 3 flight test took place in Israel. Another test took...