News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Spaceflight announced details behind its SSO-A mission, the largest single rideshare mission from a US-based launch vehicle to date. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018080600
The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) announced details of a new small satellite (smallsat) standard called a Launch Unit (Launch-U). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018080601
Lockheed Martin recently shipped the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, where it will be prepared for an October lift-off aboard an Atlas V rocket. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018080602
ISS-Reshetnev Company is preparing to commission into service phase 1 of a new assembly and testing facility. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018080603
At the meeting of the Board of Directors of RSC Energia held in the form of absent voting, a decision was taken to suspend the General Director of RSC Energia, Vladimir Solntsev from 4 August 2018 due to the termination an employment contract with him by agreement of the parties. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018080604
JAXA plans to launch a small lunar landing probe on an H-2A rocket in fiscal 2021. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, will be launched together with a successor model of the X-ray astronomy satellite Hitomi and will target a landing on a small crater in Mare Nectaris. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018080500
NOAA looks to test the capabilities of privately funded small satellites because a new NOAA Satellite Observing System Architecture study shows that future satellite instruments with lower cost and/or increased performance could provide significant benefit in NOAA’s future observing systems. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018080501
Airbus Defence and Space has been selected by Telesat as a major industrial partner to support their System Design and Risk Management phase for Telesat’s LEO constellation now in development. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018080502
Hispasat and Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. have entered into a partnership to commercialise Hispasat’s Ka band satellite capacity over Brazil, with an estimated potential revenue of tens of millions of dollars over a period of several years. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018080503
Yahsat has completed the acquisition of a majority and controlling stake in mobile satellite services operator Thuraya. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018080504