News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Airbus, ESA and Eutelsat presented the new ground breaking multibeam active antenna payload at Airbus in Madrid. Airbus’ ELSA+ (ELectronically Steerable Antenna+) is a first for commercial satellite communications in Europe. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019112103
Delegates representing International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Member States have agreed at the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to adopt a new milestone-based approach for the deployment of non-geostationary satellite (NGSO) systems in specific radio-frequency bands and services. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019112104
China Satcom has filed an insurance claim over the ChinaSat-18 communications satellite after it failed to communicate with the satellite, which is now considered a total loss. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019112000
Firefly Aerospace announced 26 payloads were selected to fly on the Dedicated Research and Education Accelerator Mission (DREAM), a global competition to host academic and educational payloads as rideshare participants on the inaugural flight of the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019112001
The KL-ALPHA A and KL-ALPHA B satellites that recently flew aboard a Kuaizhou-1A rocket were reportedly launched on behalf of KLEO Connect GmbH, Munich, Germany. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019112002
India will launch its cartography satellite Cartosat-3 and 13 commercial nanosatellites into sun-synchronous orbit on 24 November (UTC), the Indian space agency said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111900
The all-electric KONNECT communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space for Eutelsat Communications is now undergoing final preparation prior to being shipped to the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, for a launch planned mid-January 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111901
The Euclid mission is taking shape in Airbus cleanrooms: engineers are now finishing assembly of the telescope, the main instrument of the Payload Module, for which Airbus is responsible within this European Space Agency (ESA) mission led by Thales Alenia Space (TAS) as industrial prime contractor. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111902
For the solar array of ESA’s JUICE mission to Jupiter, Airborne delivered the last four out of 10 XL substrate panels to Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111903
Rocket: Kuaizhou-1A [KZ-1A]; Payload: KL-ALPHA A, KL-ALPHA B [KL-a-A, KL-a-B]; Date: 17 November 2019, 1000 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. State media reported that the two multimedia satellites were sent into planned orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111800