GeoMetWatch Musing Fewer Hosted Payloads, More Satellites – Satellite Today
GeoMetWatch orbiter rendition. Photo: GeoMetWatch [Via Satellite 08-29-2014] Commercial weather company GeoMetWatch is reevaluating its original plan to orbit six geo-hyperspectral sounders as hosted payloads. Instead, the company hopes a new approach that includes separate satellites will help to bring the constellation online by 2020. “We are looking at some free-flyer opportunities which, for some of…