News & Events

Roskosmos has signed a contract for buying eight Soyuz-2-1a rockets, which will transport Progress MS resupply ships and Soyuz MS manned spaceships to the International Space Station (ISS), according to data from SPARK Marketing. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060201

Northrop Grumman Corporation said it successfully conducted a full-scale static fire test of the first stage of its new OmegA rocket in Promontory, Utah, even though the test seems to have ended in a small explosion. The test verified the performance of the first stage solid rocket motor for the intermediate version of OmegA. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060202

RUAG Space said it has started providing thermal insulation for launch vehicles. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060203

Eutelsat 7C, Eutelsat Communications’ newest high-power broadcast satellite, has arrived at the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana where it will be launched as a co-passenger on an Ariane 5 rocket on 20 June. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060204

SpaceX said that all 60 recently launched Starlink satellites have deployed their solar arrays successfully, generated positive power and communicated with ground stations. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060205

According to Euroconsult’s latest report, Ground Segment Market Prospects: Part 1, Forecasts to 2028, the commercial satellite ground segment market, including satcom applications, EO applications and user terminals for user applications, is going through significant expansion in terms of both capabilities and demand and will grow from US$264 million in 2018 to nearly US$360 million…

Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: Yamal-601; Date: 30 May 2019, 1742 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Separation of the Yamal 601 satellite from the Briz M upper stage is scheduled more than nine hours into the mission, at 0255 UTC (too late for this issue). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019053000

Airbus has signed a contract with Inmarsat to design, manufacture and build the first in their next generation of geostationary Ka-band satellites, Inmarsat GX7, 8 & 9. The three satellites are the first to be based on Airbus’ new OneSat product line, which is fully reconfigurable in orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019053001

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Spacecraft Element (SCE) successfully completed its last environmental test, thermal vacuum testing, at Northrop Grumman Corporation in Redondo Beach. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019053002

The ExoMars 2020 Rover Operations Control Center (ROCC) was inaugurated by Thales Alenia Space (the joint venture between Thales 67% and Leonardo 33%), ALTEC (Aerospace Logistics Technology Engineering Company), the Italian space agency ASI and the European Space Agency (ESA). It is located on the premises of ALTEC, an engineering and logistics services joint venture…