News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
According to Euroconsult’s latest report, Prospects for Space Exploration, global government investment in space exploration totalled US$14.6 billion in 2017, a 6% increase compared to 2016. Fifteen leading space programmes world-wide are estimated to contribute to this global investment with the U.S. accounting for 74% of the total. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018092704
According to a new market intelligence report by BIS Research, titled "Global High-throughput Satellite Market, Analysis & Forecast, 2018 – 2023," the high-throughput satellite (HTS) market was estimated as US$3,466 million in 2017 and is expected to reach US$7.31 billion by 2023. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018092705
Arianespace’s on-target mission with Horizons 3e and Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 marked the milestone 100th flight of a heavy-lift Ariane 5. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018092600
Vector announced that the company received a U.S. patent for its enhanced liquid oxygen-propylene rocket engine. Vector is the first and only launch provider to utilise propylene fuel and liquid oxygen (LOX) in an operational launch system. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018092601
ThinKom Solutions, Inc. has announced the successful completion of the first ground test of its ThinAir Ka2517 Ka-band phased-array satellite antenna with the SES’ O3b constellation of medium-Earth orbit (MEO) satellites. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018092602
Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Horizons 3e, Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 [IS 38]; Date: 25 September 2018, 2239 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. Horizons 3e separated from the upper stage 28 minutes after lift-off, followed by Azerspace-2/IS 38 about 14 minutes later. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018092500
NASA has awarded a contract extension to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to continue operations and science support for the agency’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018092501
Airbus has successfully tested stratospheric 4G/5G defence applications with a high-altitude balloon demonstration. The technology tested, an Airbus LTE AirNode, represents a key part of Airbus’ secure networked airborne military communications project, Network for the Sky (NFTS). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018092502
Boeing has completed the acquisition of Millennium Space Systems, a provider of agile, flight-proven small-satellite solutions. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018092503
Three new ideas have been chosen to compete as the tenth Earth Explorer mission. The decision follows the release of a call for ideas in September 2017. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018092400