News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
The French Space Agency (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, CNES) has recently signed a contract with Airbus Defence and Space for the development and manufacture of the thermal infrared instrument for the TRISHNA satellite. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020042001
The launch of the Ekspress-80 and Ekspress-103 telecommunications satellites from the Baikonur spaceport was indefinitely postponed due to technical problems detected in the Proton-M rocket, Russia’s ISS-Reshetnev Company said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020041900
Launches of two satellites from French Guiana have been preliminary postponed for September, CEO of Russia’s state space corporation Roskosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020041901
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will send two U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station on 27 May – the first crewed spaceflight from the U.S. in nearly a decade. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020041902
Intelsat announced that Intelsat 901 has returned to service following the successful docking with the first Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV-1) from Northrop Grumman Corporation and the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, SpaceLogistics LLC, on 25 February. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020041903
A new navigation satellite, GLONASS-M, designed and built by ISS-Reshetnev Company, has been commissioned for operational use. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020041904
On 8 April 2020, the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission achieved an important milestone, passing NASA’s critical System Requirements Review/Mission Definition Review (SRR/MDR). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020041600
SpaceX has delayed the launch of 60 Starlink satellites aboard a Falcon 9 for unspecified reasons. The launch of the next Progress cargo vessel to the ISS has also been postponed. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020041500
Exolaunch, a German rideshare launch and deployment solutions provider, signed a Launch Services Agreement with SpaceX to launch small satellites on a Falcon 9 as part of SpaceX’s SmallSat Rideshare Program. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020041501
Rocket Lab has signed a deal with Japanese satellite company Synspective to launch a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite in late 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020041502