News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
SpinLaunch has announced that the company has been awarded a responsive launch prototype contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), facilitated by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061900
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and five European companies have teamed up in the RETro Propulsion Assisted Landing Technologies (RETALT) project to jointly advance the research and development of key technologies for European vertical-landing launch vehicles. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061901
Newtec, a specialist in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for satellite communications, has announced it is working with QinetiQ on two key projects as it enters the Belgian space market. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061902
Boeing announced it is relocating the headquarters of its Space and Launch division to Titusville, on Florida’s revitalised Space Coast. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061903
Rocket Lab’s seventh Electron launch – the third mission for 2019 – will carry seven small satellites to low Earth orbit in a rideshare mission dubbed "Make it Rain" procured by Spaceflight. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061800
Firefly Aerospace has announced a global competition to host academic and educational payloads, free of charge, on the inaugural flight of the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061801
The Airbus-built SEOSAT/Ingenio, the first Earth observation satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA) and Spanish government has left Madrid and is ready for final testing. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061802
Viasat Inc. and Arianespace announced a modification to their original ViaSat-3 satellite launch contract, signed in 2016. Under the new agreement, the two companies agreed to move the ViaSat-3 satellite from an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle to the next-generation Ariane 64 (A64) launcher. With this contract, Viasat will become the first commercial customer to…
Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the signature of a launch services contract with an Ariane launch vehicle for JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061701
The first of the Batch 3 contract navigation payloads was delivered at the beginning of June by SSTL according to schedule and satellite series production for the European Satellite Navigation System Galileo is in full swing again at OHB System AG in Bremen. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061702