News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
PerúSAT-1 has been installed in the multi-payload dispenser system that will enable this spacecraft to be launched on Arianespace’s upcoming Vega light-lift mission from French Guiana, along with a cluster of satellites for Terra Bella (formerly Skybox Imaging). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2016083100
Space Systems Loral announced that its second high performance satellite designed and built for Australia’s national broadband network (nbn) has arrived at the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where it will be launched aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle by Arianespace. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2016083101
ISRO is planning for the launch of a record 68 satellites in one mission by early next year. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2016083102
ESA engineers have discovered that a solar panel on the Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite was hit by a millimetre-size particle in orbit on 23 August. Thanks to onboard cameras, ground controllers were able to identify the affected area. So far, there has been no effect on the satellite’s routine operations. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2016083103
HawkEye 360, Inc., which is developing a radio frequency (RF) detection and mapping system using a constellation of small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), announced that it selected Danish space components company GomSpace to provide the payload for its Pathfinder cluster satellite mission. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2016083104
After studying Ceres for more than eight months from its low-altitude science orbit, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will move higher up for different views of the dwarf planet. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2016083105
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