News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
The U.S. Air Force confirmed there will be five more Delta IV Heavy missions. United Launch Alliance will be paid the manufacturing costs and on top receive US$1.18 billion to support those five launches. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019093000
Arianespace said it welcomes the Space Safety Coalition’s initiative to better preserve the orbital environment and endorses this organisation’s related guidelines: "Best Practices for the Sustainability of Space Operations." http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019093001
GHGSat, a private company which owns and operates the world’s first and only satellite designed to monitor greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sources, has named its third satellite (GHGSat-C2), Hugo. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019093002
The first launch of a new Angara heavy carrier rocket from the Vostochny spaceport in the Russian Far East is due to take place at the end of the summer of 2023, Head of the State Space Corporation Roskosmos Dmitry Rogozin said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019092900
Ariane 6’s Vulcain 2.1 liquid-fuelled engine has now completed its qualification testing, which means combined tests can now begin. A review last week marked the culmination of two Vulcain static firing test campaigns over 15 months on two demonstration models in test facilities at the DLR German Aerospace Center test facility in Lampoldshausen. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019092901
Ball Aerospace delivered the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) for Landsat 9, completing development of the instrument on schedule and under budget. Ball will continue to support instrument integration and spacecraft-level testing, working closely with NASA and the Landsat 9 spacecraft provider. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019092902
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., announced that it received a US$7.5 million award to enhance the Enterprise Management & Control (EM&C) architecture with a Satellite Situational Awareness, Common Operating Picture (SA-COP). In addition, Kratos will introduce new orchestration capabilities that automate the configuration of terminals and supporting networks and scale this capability to support…
Rocket: Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat M; Payload: EKS-3 [Tundra 3, Kosmos-2541]; Date: 26 September 2019, 0746 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The early warning was deployed as planned and has been tracked in a 1,646 km x 38,537 km x 63.83 degrees Molniya orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019092600
The launch of a Proton-M rocket with Eutelsat-5WB and MEV-1 will take place in the first half of October, Roskosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019092601
Thales Alenia Space and the Brazilian Space Agency under the authority of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC) signed an agreement to transfer technology that will enable Brazil to enhance its capability to design and develop optical instruments for Earth observation satellites. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019092602