News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Intelsat has contracted for new satellites with U.S. manufacturers, a necessary step to meet the accelerated C-band spectrum clearing timelines established by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier this year. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020061601
SES has selected two U.S. satellite manufacturers, Northrop Grumman and the Boeing Company, to deliver four new satellites as part of the company’s accelerated C-band clearing plan to meet the Federal Communications Commission’s objectives to roll-out 5G services. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020061602
The Spanish high-resolution land imaging mission, known as SEOSAT-Ingenio, is currently at the premises of Airbus in Madrid, Spain and is ready to be packed and shipped to Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana – following the mission’s latest successful tests and final technical review. This is another significant milestone in preparing the Earth observation satellite’s…
Airbus Defence and Space has won the next phase of the study contract (Advanced B2) from the European Space Agency (ESA) for the advanced Sample Fetch Rover which will be used to collect samples from the surface of Mars. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020061604
The Rokot-M upgraded rocket with the Russian control system may blast off for the first time in 2022, according to Alexei Varochko, CEO of Khrunichev Space Center. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020061500
Rocket Lab, has announced its next Electron mission is scheduled to launch just three weeks after its most recent mission in a demonstration of the company’s rapid launch capability. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020061501
Exolaunch announced a Launch Services Agreement with Loft Orbital, a San Francisco-based company, to deliver Loft Orbital’s YAM microsatellite into Sun-synchronous orbit on Falcon 9. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020061502
ISS-Reshetnev Company has completed assembly on the Ekspress-AMU7 telecommunications satellite. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020061503
ATEME has partnered with SES, VideoLabs and IETR for the first end-to-end UHD satellite broadcast transmission using the new Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020061504
Rocket: Electron/Curie; Payload: ANDESITE, M2 Pathfinder, three classified U.S. National Reconnaissance Office satellites; Date: 13 June 2020, 0512 UTC, Launch site: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. The mission was Rocket Lab’s 12th Electron launch and continued the company’s record of 100% mission success for customers since Electron’s first orbital mission in January 2018. Rocket Lab has…