News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
The Cygnus spacecraft successfully departed the International Space Station three months after arriving at the station to deliver about 7,500 of scientific experiments and supplies to the orbiting laboratory. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020051100
Rocket Lab has resumed launch operations for its next Electron launch following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions at Launch Complex 1. The mission will launch payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra Space. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020051000
VOX Space, the Virgin Orbit subsidiary which provides launch services for the U.S. national security community, has signed a new agreement with the Department of the Air Force, allowing the company’s LauncherOne system to conduct missions to space from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020051001
The TsNIIMash rocket and spacecraft scientific centre has confirmed the destruction in the Earth’s orbit of tanks of the Russian Fregat-SB upper stage, the press service of Roskosmos space agency said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020051002
China’s new prototype spacecraft successfully landed on 8 May, marking an important step in its ambitions to run a permanent space station and send astronauts to the moon. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020051003
China’s new ocean-monitoring satellite HY-1D has passed factory tests, paving way for its launch at a suitable time, the Ministry of National Resources . http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020051004
Globalstar, Inc. announced its operating and financial results for the quarter ending 31 March 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020051005
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch the USSF-7 mission for the U.S. Space Force on 16 May 2020. A launch window was not announced. This launch will mark the sixth flight of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-6). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020050700
Progress Space Rocket Center is ready to start work on developing a full-fledged conceptual design of a rocket with a reusable stage, Progress Space Rocket Center CEO Dmitry Baranov was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020050701
The prototype of China’s new-generation manned spaceship is now working normally in orbit, having completed a series of operations as planned, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020050702