News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Thales Alenia Space recently inaugurated a new plant in Hasselt, Belgium, dedicated to the automated production of photovoltaic assemblies (PVA), which generate electrical power on satellite solar arrays. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019092201
Rocket: Chang Zheng 11; Payload: five Zhuhai-1 satellites; Date: 19 September 2019, 0642 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. U.S. tracking data so far show one payload in a 494 km x 514 km x 97.4° Sun-synchronous orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019091900
Rocket Lab and Virginia Space at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), have completed a major construction milestone ahead of the first Electron launch from U.S. soil. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019091901
HawkEye 360 Inc., the first commercial company to use formation flying satellites to create a new class of radio frequency (RF) analytics, announced it has awarded the manufacturing contract for its next generation of satellites. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019091902
The first launch of OneWeb satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome is tentatively scheduled for 19 December, a spokesperson for Russian State Space Corporation Roskosmos was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019091800
ArianeWorks, the acceleration and innovation platform created at the beginning of 2019 by the French space agency CNES and ArianeGroup, founder members and coordinators, continues to expand with the arrival of a new partner, ONERA. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019091801
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) announced that its U.S. subsidiary iDirect Government, LLC (iDirectGov) has acquired 100% ownership in Glowlink Communications Technology, Inc (Glowlink). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019091802
Russia’s Khrunichev Center will manufacture 11 more Proton-M carrier rockets before their production is stopped and the project is closed, the center’s Director General Alexei Varochko was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019091700
Iridium Communications Inc. and OneWeb announced they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together toward a combined service offering. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019091701
Ball Aerospace and Microsoft were selected to demonstrate agile cloud processing capabilities in support of the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Commercially Augmented Space Inter Networked Operations (CASINO) project. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019091702