News & Events

NASA and Boeing have initiated a contract for the production of 10 Space Launch System core stages and up to eight Exploration Upper Stages to support the third through the twelfth Artemis missions. Up to 10 additional core stages may be ordered under the contract. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019101701

Originally slated for a two-year mission, the second of the twin Van Allen Probes spacecraft will be retired just prior to running out of propellant, more than seven years after launch. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019101702

Thales Alenia Space has started construction of a new clean room. The construction works will span for a little less than a year. Once finished, the company will have the capacity to pursue high complexity activities such as the integration of the telecommunication payloads for Spain’s next generation governmental satellites Spainsat NG and other large…

Rocket Lab is currently targeting no earlier than 17 October 2019, 0000 UTC for the launch of Rocket Lab’s 9th mission, ‘As The Crow Flies.’ http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019101500

Firefly Black, LLC announced its selection by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Small Launch and Targets Division as a launch service provider for the Orbital Services Program-4 Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019101501

The European Space Agency said that positive steps towards solving the problems discovered with the ExoMars mission parachutes have been taken in the last month to keep on track for the July-August 2020 launch window. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019101502

Dymon announced the signing of a joint agreement with Astrobotic to send the first Japanese lunar rover onboard the Peregrine lunar lander to the Moon in 2021. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019101400

LeoLabs, Inc. announced it had launched its Kiwi Space Radar (KSR). As the first commercial radar to track objects in LEO as small as 2 centimeters, the KSR sets a new standard for tracking the full range of threats to satellites from orbital debris, the company said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019101401

The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) satellites built by Northrop Grumman Corporation for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have far surpassed their four-year on-orbit design life, completing a tenth year of space operations. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019101402

Thales Alenia Space announced the arrival of the first shipping container designed for the new family of communications satellites based on the Spacebus NEO platform. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019101403