News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Roskosmos reached the end of last year without a single accident, which was the first time in 16 years, thanks to its new corporate policy, Roskosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said at a conference of aerospace insurers. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020022300
The maiden flight of the Chang Zheng-5B rocket carrying a trial version of China’s new-generation manned spaceship is expected to take place in April, indicating the imminent start of construction of China’s space station. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020022301
On 11 February. after more than 22 years of providing weather data to the U.S. and its allies, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Flight 14 was decommissioned after completing 118,052 orbits of the Earth. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020022302
Kleos Space S.A, a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company, headquartered in Luxembourg, secured a EUR3.1 million loan agreement with Dubai-based family office Winance to progress its commercialisation plans and repay the extant convertible note. Winance will further provide optional EUR6.0 million through a convertible note agreement, subject to final documentation. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020022303
SES S.A. Said it had noted comments made by Intelsat in its ex-parte submission to the U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) dated 19 February 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020022304
Rocket: Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat-M; Payload: Meridian-M No.19L; Date: 20 February 2020, 0824 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The military communications satellite was placed into an 895 km x 39,550 km x 62.86° Molniya orbit two hours and twenty minutes after launch. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020022000
Rocket: Chang Zheng 2D; Payload: XJS-C, XJS-D, XJS-E, XJS-F; Date: 19 February 2020, 2107 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellites were deployed into 474 km x 482 km x 35.01° orbits. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020022001
Ball Aerospace successfully completed the preliminary design review (PDR) of the advanced spectrometer instrument for the MethaneSAT Flight System, a 350-kilogram satellite that will locate and measure methane emissions around the globe. With the completion of PDR, Ball will proceed with the critical design phase. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020022002
Russia, Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates are planning to sign an agreement on upgrading launch site No. 1 at the Baikonur spaceport in the first half of this year, Chairman of the Aerospace Committee at Kazakhstan’s Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry Ministry Baubek Oralmagambetov was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020021900
Airbus Defence and Space has entered the consultation process with the company’s European works council on the division’s planned restructuring. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020021901