August 2018

Frontier Aerospace Corporation announced their selection by NASA’s Space Technology and Mission Directorate (STMD) for a "Tipping Point" award to provide flight qualification of Frontier’s Deep Space Engine (DSE) that utilises MON-25/MMH propellant. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018081603

Boeing will acquire Millennium Space Systems, a provider of agile, flight-proven small-satellite solutions, under an acquisition agreement that will expand Boeing’s satellite and space portfolio, talent and capabilities. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018081604

The U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) programme completed a major programme milestone on 27 July successfully delivering the AEHF-4 satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018081500

For Arianespace’s fifth launch of the year, and the first in 2018 with Vega, the company will orbit the Aeolus satellite – the world’s first space mission to acquire profiles of the Earth’s wind on a global scale, on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018081400

Arianespace is to launch three more heavy Indian satellites from Kourou in French Guiana over the next nine months, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018081300

Engineering services teams of spacecraft controllers, spacecraft operations engineers and ground operations engineers based at the DLR GfR Galileo Control Center supported the recent operations handover of four Galileo satellites. The handover has taken place after a successful LEOP completion by CNES. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018081301

Rocket: Delta IV Heavy; Payload: Parker Solar Probe [formerly Solar Probe Plus]; Date: 12 August 2018, 0931 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The launch was scrubbed on Saturday due to a violation of a launch limit, resulting in a hold. There was not enough time remaining in the window to recycle.…

ViaSat Inc. announced financial results for the fiscal first quarter ending 30 June 2018. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018081201

Aeolus, the European Space Agency’s wind sensing satellite, has been encapsulated into the Vega launcher at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou ready for launch on 21 August at 2120 UTC. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018081000

RUAG Space signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) creating a new agreement in the small launcher market, in support of flying RUAG separation systems on the Electron Launch Vehicle. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018081001