News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Following shareholder approval and its registration in the Chamber of Commerce, Airbus’ Italian space subsidiary Space Engineering has officially changed its name to Airbus Italia S.p.A. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090803
The fate of India’s moon lander Vikram was unclear after its attempt to soft-land on the lunar surface. Telemetry was lost at an altitude of 2.1 km. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090600
The Independent Inquiry Commission, tasked with analysing the failure of Vega Flight VV15, submitted its findings on Wednesday, 4 September 2019. co-chaired by the Inspector General of the European Space Agency (ESA); and the Senior Vice President, Technical and Quality of Arianespace; the Commission was appointed on Thursday, 11 July 2019. According to its assigned…
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Missouri University of Science and Technology, and NASA conducted experiments to understand the behavior of a high-performance electric propellant compared with a traditional propellant. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090400
MDA has been awarded a contract from the Canadian Space Agency to execute the system design phase of a forest fire monitoring satellite called WildFireSat. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090401
The Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU) together with the Lebedev Physical Institute has developed nanosatellites for the Yarilo project for studying the Sun. The satellites are planned for launch into orbit in 2020, the BMSTU Youth Space Center said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090402
Airbus has completed the ocean satellite ‘Copernicus Sentinel-6A’, and is now sending it to Ottobrunn near Munich in Germany, where over the next six months the satellite will undergo an extensive series of tests at Industrieanlagen Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) to prove its readiness for space. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090300
Details have emerged regarding the incident involving ESA’s Aeolus and one of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. SpaceX meanwhile blamed a "a bug in our on-call paging system" for its failure to co-ordinate evasive manoeuvres with ESA. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090301
Eutelsat announced its withdrawal from the C-Band Alliance ("CBA"), which has been formally notified to the CBA members. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090302
The Vikram Lander successfully separated from the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter at 0745 UTC on 2 September 2019. Vikram is currently in a lunar orbit of 119 km x 127 km. The Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter continues to orbit the Moon in its existing orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090200