News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
SES announced that it has selected SpaceX as a launch partner to deliver the four newly-ordered O3b mPOWER spacecraft of its next-generation Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) communications system. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020082001
Three Gonets-M personal communications satellites, designed and built by ISS-Reshetnev Company, has arrived at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020082002
The China National Space Administration announced that the Gaofen-7 Earth observation satellite has been put into service. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020082003
The H-II Transfer Vehicle "KOUNOTORI9" (HTV9) successfully re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere after the third de-orbit manoeuvre at 0640 UTC on 20 August 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020082004
Kepler and Exolaunch have signed a launch agreement for two of Kepler’s 6U XL satellites. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020081900
iXblue, in partnership with Safran Data System and on behalf of CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatial), has developed the inertial navigation system for KASSAV 1 (Kit Autonome de Sécurité pour la SAuvegarde en Vol). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020081901
China plans to launch two satellites in the coming months for marine research and observation. Jiang Xingwei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former director of the National Satellite Ocean Application Service, said that one of the satellites will be launched in September and the other in November. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020081902
On 10 August 2020, JAXA was informed that the Authorisation of Return of Overseas-Launched Space Object (AROLSO) for the re-entry capsule from Hayabusa2 was issued by the Australian Government. The date of the issuance is 6 August 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020081903
Spacecom and NovelSat announced the successful demonstration of end-to-end video delivery over Amos-17 high throughput satellite, from network core to network edge, serving user devices over a wireless network. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020081904
Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: 58 Starlink satellites, 3 SkySat satellites; Date: 18 August 2020, 1431 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Planet’s SkySats deployed sequentially beginning about 12 and a half minutes after lift-off, and the Starlink satellites deployed approximately 46 minutes after lift-off. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020081800