News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
The capsule of ‘Hayabusa2’ containing asteroid samples will land in South Australia on 6 December 2020, JAXA and the Australian Space Agency said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020071402
Satellite Vu has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) to develop the infrared imaging space technologies for its planned satellite constellation, which is to deliver infrared imaging with frequent re-visit times, both day and night. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020071403
SpaceX has cancelled the launch of a South Korean ANASIS II military satellite, previously scheduled for 16 July, to "take a closer look" at the rocket’s staging. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020071300
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) successfully completed its Flight Readiness Review and remains on track to launch the National Reconnaissance Office Launch-129 (NROL-129) mission no earlier than 15 July from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) Pad 0B at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020071301
Australian rocket company Gilmour Space Technologies has achieved one of the longest hybrid rocket engine test firings in the world: a 110-second mission duration burn of its upper stage engine. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020071302
SpaceX on Saturday again delayed the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket due to take 57 Starlink satellites into space. The company said that it was postponing the 10th Starlink mission "to allow more time for checkouts." http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020071200
The launch of the Russian Soyuz carrier rocket with the FalconEye-2 satellite from the Kourou Space Centre is planned for mid-October, the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has confirmed. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020071201
The Council of Europe’s operational satellite agency for weather and climate, EUMETSAT, has approved the transition plan from the second to the third generation of Meteosat geostationary satellites for 2022-2026. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020071202
The Nauka ("Science") multi-functional laboratory module that Russia is planning to send to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2021 has successfully passed trials in a vacuum chamber and will be dispatched to the Baikonur spaceport on 21-23 July, the State Space Corporation Roskosmos said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020071203
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced that further to its announcement of 8 July 2020, it was notified on 11 July 2020 that an amended complaint was filed by Comtech Telecommunications Corp. and its subsidiary, Convoy Ltd., against Gilat in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020071204