News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Spacecom and its long-term partner ST Engineering iDirect announced the successful demonstration of VSAT return capabilities on Amos-17. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020050503
Russia will launch its first Arktika-M satellite for monitoring the Arctic climate and environment at the end of the year, General Director of the Lavochkin aerospace company Vladimir Kolmykov was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020050400
The duration of SpaceX’s first mission with astronauts on board — planned to launch on 27 May from Florida — has been extended from a few days to potentially weeks aboard the International Space Station, NASA said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020050401
MDA announced that it has received a contract worth C$190 million to support robotic operations on the International Space Station (ISS) from 2020 to 2024. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020050402
The telecommunications satellites Ekspress-80 and Ekspress-103 will be launched on 30 July (local time). The Proton-M rocket needed for the launch will be repaired by June, a space industry source said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020050300
Assembly of the first flight model of the new Russian Angara-A5M rocket, designed to launch Oryol manned spacecraft, will begin in 2023, General Director of the Khrunichev Space Center Alexey Varochko was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020050301
Aerojet Rocketdyne has been awarded a US$1.79 billion contract modification for the production of an additional 18 RS-25 engines to support future deep space exploration missions. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020050302
The UAE Space Agency and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center announced the safe transfer of the Mars Hope spacecraft to its launch site at Tanegashima Space Centre. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020043000
Luxembourg based Kleos Space, a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service company, said it is waiting for Indian space agency’s announcement for launch of its rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle – C49 (PSLV-C49). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020043001
On 29 February 2020 (Japan time), the CubeSat developed by a team from the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala was successfully deployed from the Japanese Experiment Module "Kibo" of the International Space Station. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020043002