News & Events

Telesat announced its financial results for the three-month period ending 31 March 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020043003

Rocket Lab has closed the transaction to acquire Sinclair Interplanetary, a provider of high-quality, flight-proven satellite hardware. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020043004

Following the measures presented by the French government on 28 April as part of the gradual resumption of activity planned from 11 May and the announcement of a restart of operational activities at the Guiana Space Center, Arianespace confirmed an updated tentative launch scheduled. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020042900

Rocket Lab has rolled an Electron launch vehicle out to the Launch Complex 2 pad at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops, Virginia for the first time. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020042901

A RAND Corp. study of the heavy lift launch market confirms the heavy lift launch market is unlikely to support more than two U.S. launch providers in the long term, and highlights the short term schedule risks of transitioning to new providers. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020042902

The payload module for the new Ekspress AMU-7 telecommunications satellite has arrived at ISS-Reshetnev facilities in Zheleznogorsk. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020042903

SpaceX has announced some measures to make its Starlink satellites "generally invisible to the naked eye within a week of launch." http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020042904

SEAKR Engineering, Inc. announced it has been awarded as the prime contractor for U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Pit Boss Phase I Option II contract to further expand existing contractual work supporting the Blackjack programme. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020042800

Iridium Communications Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter of 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020042801

China is constructing the largest steerable radio telescope in Asia with a 70-meter-diameter antenna to receive data from its first Mars exploration mission which is expected to be launched this year. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020042802