News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
L3Harris Technologies has introduced a new small satellite reflector antenna that will help decrease the size, mass and overall time to produce smallsats. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030903
Hughes Network Systems, LLC and OneWeb announced that Hughes has become a world-wide distribution partner for OneWeb. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030904
ST Engineering iDirect, a company of ST Engineering North America, introduced its Mx-DMA MRC (multi-resolution coding) technology, which according to the company unites SCPC (single carrier per channel) efficiency and TDMA (time-division multiple access) scalability. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030905
Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Dragon CRS-20; Date: 6 March 2020, 1850 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The Dragon capsule separated from Falcon 9’s second stage about nine minutes after lift-off and will attach to the space station on Monday, 9 March. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030800
Almost all Arianespace staff have reportedly left the Kourou space centre in French Guiana after several cases of the new coronavirus-related disease have been identified in a community nearby. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030801
SpaceLogistics LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as its commercial partner for the agency’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) programme. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030802
Due to additional checks to be performed on the Fregat upper stage of the Soyuz flight VS24, the launch from the French Guiana Space Center is postponed. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030500
The next launch of a GLONASS-M navigation satellite from Plesetsk is scheduled for 16 March, the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Company (the producer of GLONASS satellites) announced. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030501
The launch of GISAT-1 onboard GSLV-F10, planned for 5 March 2020, was postponed due to technical reasons, ISRO said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030400
NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite, which had been offline for about nine months due to a technical glitch, is fully operational again, agency experts said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030401