News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Airbus said it is expanding its aerospace activities at its site in Ottobrunn/Taufkirchen, near Munich with the modernisation of solar array production for satellites, and with the commissioning of expanded clean rooms for optical satellite instruments. In total, the company will be investing approximately EUR25 million. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021101
French Guiana has welcomed the four passengers for Arianespace’s second Soyuz mission in 2019, which will further expand the SES-owned O3b satellite constellation. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021000
Airbus and Japanese telecommunications satellite operator Sky Perfect JSAT have signed a co-operation agreement for the design preparation of the EDRS-D node. This third communication node of the SpaceDataHighway system is to be positioned over the Asia-Pacific region before 2025. EDRS-D will lead to a significant increase in the system’s communication capacity and considerably expand…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Spacecraft Element (SCE) successfully completed acoustic and sine vibration testing at Northrop Grumman Corporation in Redondo Beach. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021002
Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that its Cygnus spacecraft has departed from the International Space Station after an 81-day stay during the NG-10 mission. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021003
Viasat announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019021004
NASA and its Commercial Crew Program providers Boeing and SpaceX have agreed to move the target launch dates for the upcoming inaugural test flights of their next generation U.S. spacecraft and rockets that will launch astronauts to the International Space Station. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019020700
Orbex has announced that it is partnering with UK-based Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) to carry an experimental payload on its maiden flight from Scotland in 2021. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019020701
The latest four Galileo satellites have been given the green light to begin working alongside the rest of Europe’s satellite navigation fleet. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019020702
Arianespace has not accepted the offer by the Russian Lavochkin Research and Production Association to "patch up" the rupture in the pipeline that supplies helium to fuel tanks of the Fregat booster on the Soyuz-ST carrier rocket at the Guiana space centre, a source in the rocket and space industry was quoted as saying by…