September 2017

News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web

JPSS-1 has new target launch date – Satellite News Digest

The launch of JPSS-1, the first in a series of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s four next-generation operational polar-orbiting weather satellites, is scheduled for 10 November at 0947 UTC aboard a Delta 2 (!) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017090501

SpaceX to launch JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 – Satellite News Digest

Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) said it selected SpaceX as the launch provider for its Kacific-1 satellite, which is being built by The Boeing Company. Kacific-1 [which is actually one of two payloads aboard a condo satellite shared with Japan’s Sky Perfect JSAT] will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017090502