Aurora Insight Commissions Second Satellite, "CHARLIE," and Prepares For Third Satellite Launch CHARLIE Completes Functional Testing; Begins Commercial RF Mapping Operations News provided by Share this article
Aurora Insight, a business analytics company for the wireless industry, announced its second satellite, named CHARLIE, has completed preliminary testing and has begun functional data collection to map the RF environment from space. Satellite Charlie was launched in January 2021 with SpaceX's Transporter-1, and it has drastically improved Aurora Insight's space capabilities, collecting 15 times more data than the company's first demo-satellite, which was launched in 2018. Aurora Insight will also launch its third satellite--named "BRAVO"-- later this month aboard ArianeSpace's Vega, on the VV18 mission. In 2019, Aurora Insight contracted