News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Maxar Technologies (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates) announced that shareholders approved the company’s U.S. domestication at a special meeting held earlier in Westminster, Colorado. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111807
Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Es’hailsat 2; Date: 15 November 2018, 2046 UTC; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, USA. The satellite was deployed to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) about 32 minutes after liftoff. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111500
Arianespace has been selected by GHGSat Inc. to launch the GHGSat-C1 satellite on the Vega launch vehicle as part of the Small Spacecraft Mission Service flight in 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111501
An Angara-A5 heavy carrier rocket is expected to be built by April 2019 for a second test launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in north Russia. Rocket manufacturer Khrunichev is currently testing its integral parts, the company’s press office said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111502
The Space Alliance formed by Telespazio (Leonardo 67%, Thales 33%) and Thales Alenia Space (Thales 67%, Leonardo 33%) announced it has officially taken a stake in NorthStar Earth and Space Inc. (NorthStar), a Montreal based information services company developing an environmental and near-space monitoring system. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111503
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to allow Space X, Telesat Canada and two other companies to roll out new satellite-based broadband services. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111504
Rocket: GSLV Mk. III; Payload: GSAT-29; Date: 14 November 2018, 1138 UTC; Launch site: atish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota, India. The satellite was successfully deployed into geostationary transfer orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111400
Dismal weather has pushed back the launch of a U.S. cargo craft to the International Space Station one day to Friday, 16 November. Russia’s resupply ship is still on track for its launch to the orbital lab from Kazakhstan less than nine hours later on the same day. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111401
MDA announced that it has signed two contracts with a total value of more than C$15 million with OHB System AG (OHB) and Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG (Tesat) for multiple advanced communication subsystems that will be used on Germany’s Heinrich Hertz communications satellite. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111402
Thales Alenia Space and ONERA (Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales), the French national aerospace research centre, have signed an agreement to co-operate on space activities. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111403