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JoeySat Beam-Hopping Satellite Launched

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Tom Patton
May 24, 2023
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A beam-hopping satellite … nicknamed JoeySat after a baby kangaroo … was launched into low Earth orbit on May 20 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg in California. JoeySat will connect thousands of people traveling by air, sea or on land to the Internet.

"The innovation behind JoeySat would not be possible without ESA and the UK Space Agency,…

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