Kepler Communications Inc. is a private telecommunications company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company's stated mission is to deliver affordable network connectivity across the globe via a growing network of small CubeSat satellites. The company was founded in 2015 by four graduate students from the University of Toronto, who previously worked together on various design projects through the University of Toronto Aerospace Team. Put simply, Kepler Communications is building cell phone towers in space. This infrastructure will resolve the problem of intermittent connectivity for non-geostationary satellites, will open new business opportunities that necessitate real-time connectivity to satellites, and will reduce reliance on costly and difficult to deploy ground infrastructure. Kepler's key technology is a high-capacity, high-throughput software-defined radio (SDR) that can provide 200 MHz of bandwidth, allowing for data throughput of 500 megabits/second (Mbps) in communication speed.
Satellite info
| Nation: | Canada |
| Company/operator: | Kepler Communications |
| Platform/configuration: | 6U CubeSat |
| Mass: | 6 kg |
| Orbit: | 400 km - 650 km Low Earth Orbit (LEO) |
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| Purpose: | Internet of Things (IoT), Machine-to-machine (M2M) |
| Launch vehicles: | Soyuz-2-1b Fregat, Falcon 9 |
| Website: | https://kepler.space |
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Kepler satellites launch overview
| Flight no. | Date launch | Rocket | Launch base | Orbit | Satellites launched | Mission succes? |
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| 1 | 19/01/2018 | CZ-11 | Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (China) | 540 km | 1 (KIPP) | Success |
| 2 | 29/11/2018 | PSLV-CA | Satish Dhawan Space Centre (India) | 540 km | 1 (CASE) | Success |
| 3 | 03/09/2020 | Vega | Guiana Space Centre (France) | 530 km | 1 (TARS) | Success |
| 4 | 28/09/2020 | Soyuz-2-1b Fregat | Plesetsk Cosmodrome (Russia) | 560 km | 2 | Success |
| 5 | 24/01/2021 | Cape Canaveral (USA) | 525 km | 8 | Success |
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| 6 | 22/03/2021 | Soyuz-2-1b Fregat | Plesetsk Cosmodrome (Russia) | 550 km | 2 | Success |
| 7 | 13/01/2022 | Cape Canaveral (USA) | 525 km | 4 | Success |
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| 8 | 15/04/2023 | Cape Canaveral (USA) | 525 km | 2 | Success |
Images: Kepler Communications
