News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
exactEarth has completed its previously announced transaction to divest four satellites from its first-generation constellation and its ground station assets to Myriota Canada, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Myriota PTY. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020081002
1Sat Telecomunicaçoes, Brazil, has launched BluTV, a new Direct to Home broadcast platform dedicated to the Brazilian market, leveraging the coverage of Eutelsat 65 West A. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020081003
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), in partnership with the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), competitively awarded two Firm-Fixed-Price, Indefinite Delivery Requirement contracts for National Security Space launch services to ULA and SpaceX. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020080900
The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center successfully delivered the fourth Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, last month. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020080901
GomSpace Luxembourg SARL and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a contract to continue development and implementation of the Juventas CubeSat in support of the Hera mission. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020080902
Globalstar, Inc. announced its financial results for the quarter ending 30 June 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020080903
Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: 57 Starlink satellites, two BlackSky satellites; Date: 7 August 2020, 0512 UTC; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, USA. The BlackSky Global spacecraft deployed sequentially beginning 1 hour and 1 minute after lift-off, and the Starlink satellites deployed approximately 1 hour and 33 minutes after lift-off. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020080700
The Nauka multi-functional laboratory module planned for launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in April 2021 will be sent to the Baikonur spaceport from the Khrunichev Space Center (the module’s producer) on 10 August, the press office of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roskosmos was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020080701
Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a contract with SES to build SES-22 and SES-23, geostationary communications satellites. These two new satellites are designed to provide digital broadcasting services over North America. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020080702
Boeing has received a contract to build four additional 702X satellites from SES as the company increases the number of O3b mPOWER satellites in its Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation to 11. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020080703