News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Lockheed Martin-built GPS III Space Vehicle 04 (GPS III SV04) satellite was encapsulated within a SpaceX payload fairing at Astrotech Space Operations Florida facility on 21 September in preparation for its upcoming launch on 30 September (UTC) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092702
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Enterprise and Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) recently signed a contract modification to reuse a Falcon 9 first-stage booster – for the first time on a National Security Space Launch mission – starting with the fifth Global Positioning System (GPS)-III satellite, scheduled to launch next…
The U.S. military has begun publicly sharing data for debris-on-debris conjunction predictions via www.Space-Track.org. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092704
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that it has joined with Microsoft to enable the launch of Microsoft Azure Orbital, a platform that provides Ground Station-as-a-Service (GSaaS) to the satellite industry. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092705
Exolaunch announced that it will arrange the launch and provide technical mission management for four of Spire Global’s Lemur-class 3U cubesats aboard a Soyuz-2.1b rocket mission scheduled for 28 September. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092400
A next-generation GLONASS-K satellite has been delivered to the Plesetsk cosmodrome ahead of a launch scheduled for 16 October, Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092401
Eutelsat Communications and Ovzon AB have entered into a long-term agreement for the provision of satellite control services following a competitive bidding process involving all major satellite operators. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092402
China will soon lose the ability to access its weather and Earth-monitoring satellites via ground station locations affiliated with the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) in Sweden, Chile and Australia. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092403
SES has announced plans to significantly advance its digital transformation across its enterprise, operations and development of new services for the cloud-scale era. As a cornerstone of the strategy, SES signed a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to be an Azure Orbital partner as well as to accelerate and expand the use of Microsoft Azure across…
On Thursday, 24 September, the Spanish optical Earth observation satellite SEOSAT/INGENIO will begin its journey from Torrejón air base in Madrid (Spain) to Kourou, for a launch on a Vega rocket. SEOSAT, acronym for Spanish Earth Observation Satellite, is a high resolution optical satellite devoted to civil use, to be placed in orbit at an…