News & Events

Northrop Grumman’s next NASA resupply services mission to the International Space Station is targeted for launch at 2239 UTC on 9 February. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020020500

NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020020501

The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center and its mission partners successfully deployed Aerospace’s Rogue Alpha and Rogue Beta CubeSats from the Northrop Grumman Cygnus capsule on 31 January 2020 (UTC). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020020502

On 22 January 2020, the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) flight payload was delivered to Northrop Grumman’s facility in Sterling, Virginia. There the payload will be integrated onto the U.S. Air Force’s Space Test Program Satellite 6 (STPSat-6) and prepared for launch. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020020503

C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. announced the completion of its first live test of a low-cost commercially available, 74-cm parabolic, flyaway antenna system, with Telesat’s Phase 1 LEO satellite. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020020505

Russia’s State Space Corporation Roskosmos is ready to develop a new rocket for the Sea Launch floating spaceport owned by S7 Group replacing Ukrainian Zenit launch vehicles, Roskosmos Chief Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020020400

Airbus-built Solar Orbiter has been fitted inside the protective fairing, mounted on top of an Atlas 5 launcher and is now ready to fly from Cape Canaveral on 9 February (UTC). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020020401

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. announced the execution of a Launch Services Agreement with SATLANTIS, a provider of high-performance payload technologies for Earth observation and remote sensing. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020020402

Preparations for Arianespace’s next Soyuz mission – to be conducted from Baikonur Cosmodrome in co-operation with the company’s Starsem affiliate – marked a new milestone as the payload of 34 OneWeb satellites and their dispenser were integrated on the launch vehicle’s Fregat upper stage. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020020300

Nanoracks successfully completed the company’s eighth CubeSat deployment mission from Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft. Cygnus (S.S. Alan Bean) departed the International Space Station on 31 January 2020 and performed a number of on-orbit activities. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020020301