News & Events

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner propulsion system was successfully tested at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019052601

GomSpace’s subsidiary in Luxembourg and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a contract of EUR400.000 for the Phase A design of the Miniaturised Asteroid Remote Geophysical Observer (M-ARGO) mission. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019052602

Viasat Inc. announced financial results for the fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year ending 31 March 2018 http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019052603

The attempt to launch a remote sensing Yaogan-33 satellite carried by a Chang Zheng-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center was unsuccessful. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019052300

Maxar Technologies has been selected by NASA to build and perform a spaceflight demonstration of the Lunar Gateway’s power and propulsion element spacecraft. Blue Origin and Draper will join the Maxar-led team in designing, building and operating the spacecraft through the demonstration period. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019052301

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of AWS Ground Station, a new service for customers to control satellites from AWS and download data from satellites into AWS Global Infrastructure Regions using a fully managed network of ground station antennas located around the world. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019052302

Rocket: PSLV-C46 (core only); Payload: RISAT-2B [RISAT-2BR1?]; Date: 22 May 2019, 0000 UTC; Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre(SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota. PSLV-C46 injected RISAT-2B into a orbit of 556 km about 15 minutes and 25 seconds after lift-off. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019052200

The press office of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roskosmos confirmed that the launch of the Spektr-UV observatory [also known as Spektr-UF, Spektr-F and World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet (WSO-UV)] had been scheduled for October 2025. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019052201

The Meteor-M No 2-2 spacecraft has been delivered to the Vostochny spaceport in Russia’s Far East in preparation for the upcoming launch, the press service of the Center for operating ground-based space infrastructure facilities said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019052202

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that its Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite has arrived at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, to complete launch preparations in anticipation of launching the spacecraft as part of the U.S. Air Force’s Space Technology Program 2 (STP-2) flight on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019052203