News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Russia’s S7 company mulls selling the Sea Launch space complex to a subsidiary of Russia’s state corporation Rosatom, negotiations on the issue are under way, two sources in Russia’s business circles were quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020061001
Following the successful launch and operation of Saudi Arabia’s newest commercial communications satellite, SaudiGeoSat-1 (SGS-1), Lockheed Martin has been selected to develop a new ground system to control, manage and operate the satellite. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020061002
Rocket Lab said the countdown was on for the company’s 12th Electron launch, the ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ mission from Launch Complex 1. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020060900
A rather mysterious satellite has reportedly been shipped to Cape Canaveral for a launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in July. ANASIS 2 (Army/Navy/Air Force Satellite Information System 2), originally known as KMilSatCom 1, is South Korea’s first dedicated military communications satellite. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020060901
York Space Systems announced that the company has been chosen as a strategic partner & subcontractor by LatConnect 60, who is currently developing a small satellite constellation that will provide greater access and control to critical Earth observation data required by the Australian government and a wide range of commercial clients across the world. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020060902
Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) announced it has secured a contract to provide key communications and propulsion capabilities to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in support of the NASA Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) Mission. TUI will be delivering flight units of both its SWIFT-XTS X-band software defined radio (SDR) and its HYDROS-C water-electrolysis…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) shipped the core of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle (H-IIA No. 42) from the Tobishima Plant of the Nagoya Aerospace Systems Works in Aichi Prefecture to the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020060800
Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center is starting a new programme on the production of Rokot lightweight rockets, independent of Ukraine, a source in the space industry was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020060801
Chinese engineers plan to develop a new solid-fuelled rocket with greater carrying capacity than the current model Chang Zheng-11 rocket, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation sources. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020060700
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that it has partnered with the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) to demonstrate and conduct a series of experiments for an Optical Intersatellite Link (OISL) utilising GA-EMS’s internally developed 1550-nm (nanometer) wavelength laser communication terminals (LCTs). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020060701