News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Due to additional checks to be performed on the Fregat upper stage of the Soyuz flight VS24, the launch from the French Guiana Space Center is postponed. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030500
The next launch of a GLONASS-M navigation satellite from Plesetsk is scheduled for 16 March, the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Company (the producer of GLONASS satellites) announced. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030501
The launch of GISAT-1 onboard GSLV-F10, planned for 5 March 2020, was postponed due to technical reasons, ISRO said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030400
NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite, which had been offline for about nine months due to a technical glitch, is fully operational again, agency experts said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030401
On 11 February 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft safely executed a flyover of the backup sample collection site Osprey as part of the mission’s activities in orbit around asteroid Bennu. The Canadian OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) did not operate as expected during the 11-hour event and has been declared inoperable. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030402
The 3D-printed thrust chamber assembly of the methane-fuelled M10 rocket engine has passed its first series of hot firing tests. The M10 engine will power the upper stage of future Vega evolutions from 2025. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030300
The propulsion unit of the ExoMars lander module has passed firing tests, the Lavochkin Research and Production Association said in a statement. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030301
A new machine-learning computer model accurately predicts damaging radiation storms caused by the Van Allen belts two days prior to the storm, the most advanced notice to date, according to a new paper in the journal Space Weather. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030302
Russia’s State Space Corporation Roskosmos has scheduled the first launch from the Vostochny spaceport in 2020 for the end of April, Roskosmos Chief Dmitry Rogozin said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030200
Swedish Space Corporation, SSC, and German space tech company Isar Aerospace have signed a long-term contract for testing of a new generation of European rocket engines for minilaunchers at Esrange Space Center in Sweden. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030201