June 2019

NSR’s Global Satellite Capacity Supply and Demand, 16th Edition report, confirms despite a challenging current climate for capacity sales, long-term projections are promising with revenues doubling over the next 10 years. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061703

Arianespace’s second Ariane 5 ECA launch of 2019 will place its two satellite passengers, AT&T T-16 and Eutelsat 7C, into geostationary transfer orbit. The launcher will be carrying a total payload of approximately 10,594 kg. The launch will be performed from Ariane Launch Complex No. 3 (ELA-3) in Kourou, French Guiana, on 20 June 2019…

Russia’s programme of fully replacing foreign components in GLONASS navigation satellites is due to be implemented before 2023, Chairman of the Roskosmos State Space Corporation’s Scientific and Technical Council Yuri Koptev was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061601

Maxar Technologies Inc. is reportedly exploring a sale of its space robotics business, which could fetch more than US$1 billion and allow it to pay down some of its debt, according to people familiar with the matter. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061602

RUAG Space said it has developed a satellite Dispenser that enabled three large Radarsat Earth observation satellites to simultaneously launch on a single launcher. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061300

Japan is considering the deployment of early warning satellites designed to detect ballistic missile launches, according to a Japanese press report. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061301

Globalstar, Inc. and Echo Ridge, LLC have informed the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) that the companies have developed and are prepared to participate in and support a live field demonstration of a stand-alone positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) capability that can provide accurate and reliable PNT services to backup and/or complement GPS in case…

exactEarth Ltd. and MarineTraffic, a provider of ship tracking and maritime intelligence, announce that they have entered into a three-year channel partner agreement. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061303

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Radarsat Constellation Mission [RCM]; Date: 12 June 2019, 1417 UTC; Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA. The three Radarsat satellites deployed approximately 54 minutes after launch. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019061200

NASA’s twin E-TBEx CubeSats – short for Enhanced Tandem Beacon Experiment – are scheduled to launch in June 2019 aboard the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 launch. The launch includes a total of 24 satellites from government and research institutions. They will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.…