News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
The Space Alliance formed by Telespazio (Leonardo 67%, Thales 33%) and Thales Alenia Space (Thales 67%, Leonardo 33%) announced it has officially taken a stake in NorthStar Earth and Space Inc. (NorthStar), a Montreal based information services company developing an environmental and near-space monitoring system. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111503
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to allow Space X, Telesat Canada and two other companies to roll out new satellite-based broadband services. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111504
Rocket: GSLV Mk. III; Payload: GSAT-29; Date: 14 November 2018, 1138 UTC; Launch site: atish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota, India. The satellite was successfully deployed into geostationary transfer orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111400
Dismal weather has pushed back the launch of a U.S. cargo craft to the International Space Station one day to Friday, 16 November. Russia’s resupply ship is still on track for its launch to the orbital lab from Kazakhstan less than nine hours later on the same day. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111401
MDA announced that it has signed two contracts with a total value of more than C$15 million with OHB System AG (OHB) and Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG (Tesat) for multiple advanced communication subsystems that will be used on Germany’s Heinrich Hertz communications satellite. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111402
Thales Alenia Space and ONERA (Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales), the French national aerospace research centre, have signed an agreement to co-operate on space activities. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111403
For its ninth launch of the year, and the 13th Vega mission since this launcher began its career at the Guiana Space Center in 2012, Arianespace will orbit the MOHAMMED VI – B satellite. This Earth observation satellite for the Kingdom of Morocco was developed by a consortium comprising Thales Alenia Space as system prime…
Ball Aerospace & Technologies has been awarded US$255 million by the U.S. Air Force for development and manufacturing of the Weather System Follow-on Microwave Space Vehicle 1. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111301
ArianeGroup is to cut 2,300 jobs by 2022 as orders tumble and development of a new rocket nears its end, management said. The company said it faced tough competition from U.S. space companies whose business is "bolstered by a large volume of institutional orders." http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111302
The first heavy-lift Angara A5V carrier rocket equipped with a cryogenic upper stage will be launched from the Vostochny space centre in Russia’s Far East in 2026, Roskosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111200