News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
On its fourth flight with Ariane 5 in 2019, Arianespace will orbit two telecommunications satellites on 22 November (UTC): TIBA-1 for Thales Alenia Space and Airbus Defence and Space, on behalf of the Government of Egypt; and the GX5 satellite for the operator Inmarsat. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111600
The JCSAT-18/Kacific1 communications satellite, built by Boeing, has arrived at SpaceX facilities in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where it will be launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket to geostationary orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111601
Airbus space engineers are currently testing the Copernicus Sentinel-6A satellite at the Space Test Centre of Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) in Ottobrunn – near Munich – to prove its readiness for space. During the test campaign, which will last until spring 2020, the Airbus team will check that the satellite is able to survive the severe…
NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster – Commercial (NEXT-C) fired for the first time recently inside a vacuum chamber at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The thruster is undergoing performance testing to verify it can withstand the extreme launch vibrations and hot and cold temperatures of spaceflight. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111603
Rocket: Kuaizhou-1A; Payload: Jilin-1 Gaofen 02A; Date: 13 November 2019, 0340 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The remote sensing satellite was placed into a 532 km x 546 km x 97.54° Sun-synchronous orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111300
Rocket: Chang Zheng-6; Payload: five Ningxia-1 satellites; Date: 13 November 2019, 0635 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The remote-sensing satellites were deployed into 885 km x 898 km x 45° orbits. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111301
JAXA confirmed that Hayabusa2, JAXA’s asteroid explorer, has left its target asteroid Ryugu as planned. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111302
Nano-satellite mission integrator NanoAvionics received a contract to build a 12U nano-satellite bus for the Singaporean research mission "Cathode-Less Micro Propulsion Satellite" (CaLeMPSat). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111303
General Dynamics Mission Systems has been awarded a US$783 million contract for sustainment of the U.S. Navy’s next-generation satellite communications system. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111304
Globalstar, Inc. announced its operating and financial results for the quarter ending 30 September 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111305