News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that commissioning of NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), the primary hosted payload on-board the Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite, is now underway. GA-EMS’ OTB was successfully launched on 25 June 2019 on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090201
Russia’s space observatory Spektr-RG, which was launched in July to observe the universe at X-ray wavelengths, has moved away from Earth to a distance of 1.6 million kilometers, according to Dmitry Rogozin, chief of Russia’s space corporation Roskosmos. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090202
The European Space Agency had to move one of its satellites out of the way to protect it from colliding with a SpaceX Starlink satellite, the space agency just announced on Twitter. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090203
Rocket: Rokot; Payload: Geo-IK-2 No. 13L (Kosmos 2540); Date: 30 August 2019, 1400 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. All pre-launch operations and the launch itself were normal. Ground facilities of the Aerospace Force monitored the rocket’s launch and flight. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090100
Rocket: Kuaizhou-1A [KZ-1A]; Payload: KX-09 [Kuxue-09], Xiaoxiang 1-07 [TY 1-07]; Date: 30 August 2019, 2341 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The two satellites were deployed into a 592 km x 608 km x 97.8 degrees orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090101
The final and fifth Lunar bound orbit manoeuvre for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was performed successfully on 1 September 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090102
GomSpace said it successfully delivered and commissioned the satellite bus for UnseenLabs BRO-1, launched from New Zealand by Rocket Lab on 19 August 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090103
The Russian military spacecraft Kosmos-2521, unofficially nicknamed "the satellite inspector," has performed several new manoeuvres since the beginning of 2019, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said in a statement. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090104
A satellite image showing the aftermath of a rocket explosion at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in northern Iran was posted by U.S. President Donald Trump on Twitter. This led to some noise in the mainstream media but also to some interesting analyses. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090105
Chinese commercial launcher developer and launch service provider LandSpace Technology Corporation Ltd. (LandSpace) announced that the company is seeking and accepting payloads from around the world for the maiden launch of its proprietary ZhuQue-2 (ZQ-2) launcher powered by a LOX/LCH4 [liquid oxygen/methane] rocket engine. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019082900