News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
The redeployment of the Sea Launch space launch venture from the U.S. State of California to Russia’s Far East may be discussed soon, a Russian space industry source was quoted as saying by Sputnik news agency. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019041601
Kepler Communications, a Canadian satellite telecommunications provider, and Magellan Aerospace Corporation have signed a Letter of Intention to fly a Smart Radiator Device (SRD) on Kepler’s third satellite, scheduled for launch later this year. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019041602
Microspace missions developed and launched by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) have achieved 100 cumulative years of on-orbit operations. Over two decades, SFL has developed 25 nano- and microsatellites that have been launched for space science, Earth observation, communication, radio frequency geolocation, environmental monitoring, technology demonstration, and ship detection. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019041603
Virgin Orbit announced that the Pacific island of Guam will become an additional launch site for the company’s LauncherOne service. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019041500
Russia’s State Space Corporation Roskosmos and S7 Group are planning to develop the Soyuz-5 Light reusable launch vehicle based on the Soyuz-5 rocket, Roskosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019041501
A video released by ExoAnalytics indicates that Intelsat 29e suffered a rather violent anomaly that created several medium-sized pieces of debris. Meanwhile, the satellite (or what’s left of it) is accelerating its eastward drift. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019041400
Rocket: Falcon Heavy; Payload: Arabsat 6A; Date: 11 April 2019, 2235 UTC; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, USA. The satellite was deployed approximately 34 minutes after lift-off. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019041401
NASA has selected SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by colliding a spacecraft with it at high speed – a technique known as a kinetic impactor. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019041402
Harris Corporation said it will celebrate a major space satellite antenna milestone – the production of its 100th unfurlable mesh reflector. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019041403
The attempt by Israeli company SpaceIL to soft-land its Beresheet spacecraft on the moon’s surface has ended in failure. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019041100