News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the need to fully implement the measures decided by the French government, launch campaigns underway at the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in French Guiana have been suspended. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020031602
The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis I mission has successfully completed several months of simulated space environment System level testing in the NASA-owned thermal vacuum chamber at Plum Brook Station in Ohio. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020031603
NASA has selected proposals for four missions that would study cosmic explosions and the debris they leave behind, as well as monitor how nearby stellar flares may affect the atmospheres of orbiting planets. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020031604
The Board of Directors of Lockheed Martin has elected James D. Taiclet, 59, as president and CEO, effective 15 June. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020031605
ILS International Launch Services, Inc. (ILS) announced the appointment of Tiphaine Louradour as President. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020031606
The launch of the UAE’s FalconEye 2 satellite atop a Soyuz-ST from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, which had initially been scheduled for 6 March but was delayed, will be carried out on 14 April according to a source in the space industry quoted by Tass. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020031500
GK Launch Services, an operator of Soyuz-2 commercial launches and RUAG Space, a leading independent space product supplier, have signed a Long-term Purchase Agreement for Payload Adapters and Separation systems for the Soyuz-2 launchers. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020031501
The launch of a new Russian-Belarusian satellite is scheduled for 2025, Director of GeoInformation Systems at Belarus’ National Academy of Sciences Sergei Zolotoi said in an interview with the newspaper SB. Belarus Segodnya. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020031502
Kacific1, Kacific Broadband Satellites Group’s (Kacific) first communications satellite, has entered commercial service and is ready to support customers across Asia Pacific. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020031503
The iFACT (iodine Fed Advanced Cusp field Thruster) project was successfully launched in Friedrichshafen, Germany in January 2020. Funded by the European Commission as part of its Horizon 2020 Programme, the EUR2 million project will run for 24 months. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020031504