News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Rocket: Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A); Payload: six smallsats; Date: 7 December 2019, 0852 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellites were released into approx. 495 km x 510 km x 97.52 Sun-synchronous orbits. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120802
Rocket: Electron/Curie; Payload: seven smallsats; Date: 6 December 2019, 0818 UTC; Launch site: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. Six satellites were deployed into approx. 350 km x 400 km x 97.0° orbits, the seventh one was tracked in a 398 km x 415 km x 97.01° orbit (all Sun-synchronous). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120803
The launch of the Atlas V rocket carrying Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test (OFT) Starliner spacecraft is now targeted for 20 December. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120804
The two satellite passengers for Arianespace’s year-opening Ariane 5 mission of 2020 are undergoing checkout at the Spaceport in preparation for their flight to geostationary transfer orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120805
The first launch of UK telecommunications satellites OneWeb from Baikonur Cosmodrome is scheduled for 30 January, a spokesman for Glavkosmos, subsidiary of Russian space agency Roskosmos, said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120806
S7 Space will relocate the Sea Launch floating platform and the command vessel to Russia’s Far East in 2020, the company said in a statement. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120807
Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Dragon CRS-19; Date: 5 December 2019, 1729 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Dragon will deliver more than 2,560 kg of NASA cargo and science investigations, including studies of malting barley in microgravity, the spread of fire, and bone and muscle loss. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120500
Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a new contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of the European Commission, to upgrade Europe’s EGNOS satellite navigation system. Via this contract Thales Alenia Space will develop a new version of EGNOS (version V242B), incorporating new advanced functionalities. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120501
Panasonic Avionics Corporation has signed a multi-year agreement for Ku-band capacity on two multi-beam payloads on the Eutelsat 10B satellite, due to be launched in 2022. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120502
Lloyd’s has launched a new multi-million-pound space insurance policy for the emerging private spaceflight industry. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120503