News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
A batch of 10 satellites is to be developed following the signing of a three-year Partnership Project between small satellite manufacturer AAC Clyde Space UK and ESA, with co-funding from the UK Space Agency. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111803
Eutelsat Communications has signed a Letter of Agreement with TIM (also operating under the name Telecom Italia) for wholesale capacity on the Eutelsat KONNECT and KONNECT VHTS satellites which will enable Italian households, even those living in the most isolated areas, to benefit from very high-speed fixed broadband via satellite from January 2021. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111804
Arianespace announced the loss of the Vega VV17 mission, which was carrying two payloads, SEOSAT-Ingenio, an Earth-science observation satellite for the European Spatial Agency (ESA) and TARANIS for France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES). Human error is suspected to have caused the mishap. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111700
The fifth Chang Zheng-5 rocket, to be used to launch China’s Chang’e-5 lunar probe, was vertically transported to the launching area at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province on Tuesday. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111701
Viasat Inc. announced that its solid-state, fully-electronic phased array flat panel antenna, selected by SES for the O3b mPOWER satellite communications system, has entered the Test Readiness Review (TRR) stage of the programme. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111702
Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Crew Dragon; Date: 16 November 2020, 0027 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The Crew-1 mission is the first of six crewed missions NASA and SpaceX will fly as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111600
The Eutelsat KONNECT telecommunication satellite is now operational in orbit. Built by Thales Alenia Space and launched by Arianespace on 17 January, this high throughput satellite reached its geostationary orbit on 22 July, seven months after lift-off. The satellite then underwent a battery of tests in orbit, to be now fully operational. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111601
Viasat Inc. and Infostellar Inc., a Japanese Ground Segment as a Service (GSaaS) start-up, announced it signed a Real-Time Earth (RTE) agreement. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111602
Arianespace has given the "green light" for its Vega launch on 17 November (UTC) which will orbit a pair of European-built satellites: Spain’s SEOSAT-Ingenio and TARANIS of France. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111500
NASA is now targeting 1717 UTC on Saturday, 21 November for the launch of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, the first of two identical satellites to head into Earth orbit five years apart to continue sea level observations for at least the next decade. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111501