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Rocket: H-IIB; Payload: KOUNOTORI9; Date: 20 May 2020, 1731 UTC; Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020052000

The dual chemical and electric propulsion systems for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) were recently delivered by Aerojet Rocketdyne to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020052001

The U.S. Department of Commerce released new regulations to improve the licensing process for private U.S. satellite remote sensing operations. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020052002

NASA is naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honour of Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer, who paved the way for space telescopes focused on the broader universe. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020052003

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced the launch time of the H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 9 (H-IIB F9) which carries aboard the H-II Transfer Vehicle "KOUNOTORI9" (HTV9), the cargo transporter to the International Space Station (ISS). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020051900

ISS-Reshetnev Company has been selected for a contract by the Roskosmos State Corporation to design and build a new satellite to augment and replenish the orbital constellation of the Russian data-relay system Loutch [also transcribed as Luch or Louch]. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020051901

Russia’s Gonets Satellite System Company has launched work on the conceptual designing of the Gonets next-generation communications system, company CEO Pavel Cherenkov was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020051902

The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Weather System Follow-on – Microwave (WSF-M) programme achieved two major milestones. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020051903

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced the launch schedule of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 42 (H-IIA F42) which carries aboard the Emirates Mars Mission’s (EMM) Hope spacecraft developed by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in the United Arab Emirates. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020051800

SpaceX said that a launch of up to 60 more Starlink Internet satellites previously planned this week from Cape Canaveral has been delayed until after the launch of the company’s first crewed flight. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020051801