News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Arianespace’s Soyuz mission that will orbit global satellite operator OneWeb’s first six spacecraft has been authorised for launch on 27 February from the Spaceport in French Guiana. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022600
NASA has selected a new mission that will help scientists understand and, ultimately, forecast the vast space weather system around our planet. The new experiment will, for the first time, obtain global observations of an important driver of space weather in a dynamic region of Earth’s upper atmosphere that can cause interference with radio and…
HawkEye 360 Inc. has successfully commissioned its three Pathfinder satellites and begun geolocating radio frequency (RF) signals. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022602
Cobham SATCOM announced that it would provide L-band ground infrastructure for Inmarsat’s I-6 constellation, currently set for first launch in 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022603
Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that the company successfully completed its 10th cargo supply mission to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022500
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has awarded Thales Alenia Space two contracts concerning the delivery of the Transponders and the Travelling Wave Tube Amplifiers for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) and Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) missions. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022501
Based on the positive results of analyses performed with Russian space authorities responsible for a Soyuz launch performed from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 21 February 2019, Arianespace has taken the decision to resume preparations for its Flight VS21 OneWeb F6 mission at the Guiana Space Center. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022400
India’s PSLV-C45, currently scheduled for launch on 21 March, is to put 30 satellites, including one for electronic intelligence, in three different orbits. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022401
A hiccup during boot-up recently interrupted NASA’s Curiosity rover’s planned activities and triggered a protective safe mode. The rover was brought out of this mode on 19 February and is otherwise operating normally, having successfully booted up over 30 times without further issues. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022402
Firefly Aerospace, Inc., a provider of launch vehicles, spacecraft and in-space services, announced the execution of a binding term sheet with Space Florida, under which Firefly will establish business operations at Cape Canaveral Spaceport, including launch operations at Space Launch Complex 20 and manufacturing facilities at Exploration Park, Florida. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019022403