News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Qualification of the two liquid propulsion engines and the solid propulsion engine for the Ariane 6 launcher passed major technological milestones over the summer of 2018. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018090500
SES announced that the high-powered SES-14 satellite, positioned at 47.5 degrees West, is now serving Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, North Atlantic and West Africa. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018090400
Thales Alenia Space announced to have signed contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Phase A/B1 studies of two elements of LOP-G (Lunar Orbital Platform – Gateway), formerly known as the Deep Space Gateway. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018090401
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018090402
Globalstar announced the promotions of Dave Kagan to the position of CEO and Jay Monroe to Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018090403
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and SpaceX are finalising plans for launch day operations as they prepare for the company’s first flight test with astronauts on board. The teams are working toward a crew test flight to the International Space Station, known as Demo-2, in April 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018090300
ISRO said it has successfully completed the hot test of cryogenic engine for the GSLV-F11, which is scheduled to launch GSAT-7A in November this year. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018090200
The Horizons 3e telecommunications satellite has been fuelled at the Spaceport in French Guiana, readying it for the 100th launch of a heavy-lift Ariane 5 – which also will carry the Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 relay platform on this milestone Arianespace flight planned for 25 September. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018090201
The two science orbiters of the joint ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission are connected in their launch configuration and the European science orbiter and transport module have been given the go-ahead to be loaded with propellants. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018090202
NASA has awarded a contract to General Atomics of San Diego, California, for services required to host the agency’s Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) instrument on a commercial satellite in low-Earth orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018090203