News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
A private equity consortium’s US$3.4 billion takeover of British satellite company Inmarsat was approved at a court hearing on Tuesday after hedge fund investors dropped a plan to challenge the value of the deal. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120303
Testing of the ExoMars rover at Airbus in Toulouse has moved to the next stage with the start of the thermal vacuum testing (TVAC) which will last about 18 days. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120200
China plans to accomplish a 200-tonne megawatt-level space-based solar power station by 2035, according to the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120201
Officials on Friday scrubbed the launch of Rocket Lab Electron rocket from New Zealand. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120100
Russia’s Progress MS-12 cargo spacecraft, undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday and burned up as scheduled during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, with its debris landing in the Pacific Ocean, a representative of the main research arm of the Russian State Space Corporation Roskosmos said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120101
China’s first seismo-electromagnetic satellite Zhangheng 1 has successfully obtained electromagnetic data, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120102
General Dynamics Mission Systems has been awarded a US$731.8 million cost-plus-award-fee and firm-fixed-price indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity sole-source contract for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ground system sustainment. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120103
KT Corp. said its satellite-operating subsidiary, KT SAT, has successfully conducted the world’s first 5G data transmission with a satellite connection. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019120104
Rocket: Chang Zheng-4C; Payload: Gaofen-12; Date: 27 November 2019, 2352 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The Earth observation satellite was placed in a 594 km x 599 km x 97.93° Sun-synchronous orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019112800
Ministers of the 22 European Space Agency (ESA) member states on a conference in Seville committed over EUR14 billion for new programmes over three to five years, which is an absolute record for such a conference. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019112801