News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Rocket: Rokot/Briz-KM; Payload: three Rodnik satellites; Date: 29 November 2018, 0227 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The Briz-KM upper stage together with three military satellites separated from the rocket’s second stage as scheduled at 0233 UTC. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018120200
Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 flight has been authorised for lift-off on 4 December following a launch readiness review conducted at the Spaceport in French Guiana. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018120201
SpaceX is now targeting launch of the Spaceflight SSO-A SmallSat Express mission to low Earth orbit on Monday, 3 December from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018120202
NASA has awarded a contract to Harris Corporation of Rochester, New York, for the Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA) for the agency’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018120203
China’s first global mobile satellite communication and Internet space project via low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites has been launched in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018120204