News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Quantum – the software-programmable satellite ordered by Eutelsat under an ESA Partnership Project – has successfully completed its mechanical test campaign at the Airbus facilities in Toulouse. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030202
Telecommunications operator Orange will be the first telco to adopt O3b mPOWER, SES’s next-generation Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite communications system, to exponentially ramp up its consumer and business services, starting in the Central African Republic. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030203
The launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket with the Ekspress-80 and Ekspress-103 communications satellites from Baikonur cosmodrome is scheduled for 31 March, the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Company said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030100
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s Psyche mission. The Psyche mission currently is targeted to launch in July 2022 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030101
Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully conducted a full-scale static fire test of the second stage of its OmegA rocket in Promontory, Utah. Developed to support the U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch programme, the OmegA Launch System remains on track for its first certification flight in spring 2021. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020030102
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that it was awarded an $11.5 million contract to build an advanced space radio monitoring system for a U.S. government customer. The company said the system will incorporate Kratos technologies and integrated products to help the country regulate and protect the satellite spectrum. The customer was not disclosed.…
NASA has selected a new space-based instrument to maintain the 40-year data record of the balance between the solar radiation entering Earth’s atmosphere and the amount absorbed, reflected, and emitted. The new research instrument will fly on NOAA’s operational Joint Polar Satellite System-3 (JPSS-3) satellite, which is scheduled to launch by December 2027. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020022700
Telesat announced its financial results for the three-month and one-year periods ending 31 December 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020022701
Globalstar, Inc. announced financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and year ending 31 December 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020022702
Northrop Grumman Corporation, along with NASA and Lockheed Martin, successfully completed its third and final qualification test of the Attitude Control Motor (ACM) for NASA’s Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020022600