News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
China has successfully tracked and received data from the newly launched Earth observation satellite Gaofen-7, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111001
Viasat, Inc announced financial results for the fiscal second quarter ending 30 September 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019111002
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has shipped a 16-kg Target satellite for Astroscale’s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration (ELSA-d) mission to Tokyo, where it will be bolted to the Chaser satellite for environmental testing ahead of launch in 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019110700
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has signed an agreement with Republic of the Philippines’ Department of Science and Technology-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) to provide a share of the tasking and data acquisition services from NovaSAR-1, a small S-Band radar satellite launched into a 580-km Sun synchronous orbit in September 2018. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019110701
Kepler Communications has demonstrated delivering over 100Mbps connectivity service in the Arctic region to the German icebreaker Polarstern. The vessel is located around 85°N and is the home to the MOSAiC scientific expedition. The demonstration marks the first time in history that the central Arctic is successfully connected through a high-bandwidth satellite network. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019110702
Rocket Lab announced that its next mission will launch multiple microsatellites in a rideshare mission representing five different countries. The launch window for Rocket Lab’s tenth flight, named ‘Running Out Of Fingers,’ will open on 25 November NZDT (UTC +13 hrs) and take place from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.…
Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B/G2; Payload: Beidou 49 [Beidou-3M25, Beidou-3MI3 (IGSO-3)]; Date: 4 November 2019, 1743 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The navigation satellite was deployed into a 184 km x 35,827 km x 28.5° transfer orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019110500
Raytheon has delivered the Wide Area Augmentation System Geosynchronous Earth Orbiting 6 satellite navigation payload to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to broadcast the WAAS message, which corrects errors in GPS satellite signals, provides expanded coverage, improves accuracy, and increases reliability. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019110501
Telesat announced its financial results for the three month period ending 30 September 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019110502
Rocket: Antares 230+; Payload: Cygnus NG-12; Date: 2 November 2019, 1359 UTC; Launch site: Wallops Flight Facility, USA. The cargo vessel is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station on 4 November at 0745 UTC. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019110300