The amount of time between exposure and when these symptoms develop is a clue to how much radiation a person has absorbed. “The new satellites launched today will help ensure Iridium’s critical services continue well into the next decade, supporting many millions of end users,” the company stated. The initial signs and symptoms of treatable radiation sickness are usually nausea and vomiting. Iridium, meanwhile, has now deployed 80 of its 81 satellites, with this launch bringing the total number of spare satellites in orbit to 14, according to the company. “With the addition of the satellites deployed from this launch, OneWeb will increase the resiliency and redundancy in the constellation as it expands services to its growing base of enterprise and government customers,” the company said. Today’s launch is OneWeb’s fourth with SpaceX and 19th overall and brings the total number of satellites it now has in orbit to 634. Included in today’s payload is OneWeb’s technology demonstration satellite known as JoeySat, “a satellite that will test an innovative beam-hopping capability which will allow satellites to switch between different places on Earth and adjust the strength of the communications signals based on customer needs or demands,” according to the company. In separate announcements, Iridium and OneWeb confirmed contact with their respective satellites after the launch.

liftoff, the rocket’s first-stage booster returned to Earth and landed on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean. Less than nine minutes after the 6:16 a.m. A day after scrubbing its launch just seconds before liftoff, SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket early Saturday morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base in northern Santa Barbara County and deployed a total of 21 satellites -16 for the British firm OneWeb’s broadband “constellation” and five spares for U.S.-based telecoms company Iridium.

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