News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Viasat Inc. announced its Real-Time Earth (RTE) service achieved a major milestone by providing ground station service support to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems’ (GA-EMS) Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite after its successful launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on 25 June 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072306
Lockheed Martin Corporation reported financial results for the second quarter 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072307
Iridium Communications Inc. reported financial results for the second quarter of 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072308
Rocket: GSLV MkIII-M1; Payload: Chandrayaan-2; Date: 22 July 2019, 0913 UTC; Launch site: Sriharikota, India. The Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was placed into a 169.7 km x 45,475 km orbit. This was the first operational flight of the GSLV Mk III. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072200
OneWeb Satellites – a joint venture of OneWeb and Airbus – officially opened the world’s first high-volume, high-speed advanced satellite production facility in Florida, USA. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072201
Lockheed Martin has completed building the capsule for NASA’s Orion spacecraft. The crew module capsule for the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the Moon has been stacked on top of the Orion service module, which was also recently finished. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072202
Britain said it would scrutinise the acquisition Inmarsat by a private equity-led consortium to examine any potential impact on national security. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072203
Rocket: Soyuz-FG; Payload: Soyuz MS-13; Date: 20 July 2019, 1628 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. After lift-off, the crewed spaceship entered orbit in approximately nine minutes. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072100
Virgin Orbit has been selected by the U.K.’s Royal Air Force (RAF) to provide responsive launch capabilities for a small satellite constellation Operational Capability Demonstrator through a new RAF project named "ARTEMIS." http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072101
China’s Tiangong-2 space lab successfully re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on 19 July under controlled conditions. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072102