News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc. has launched a Space & Sensing Systems division at its Cypress, CA headquarters. The new division will sell satellite on-board equipment, including solar array panels, lithium-ion batteries, and RF equipment. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060503
A pair of space sails designed and manufactured by the University of Surrey team behind RemoveDEBRIS – a project that demonstrated a number of world-first active debris removal technologies – have been successfully deployed. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060504
Packed with about 1,890 kg of cargo and science, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft departed the International Space Station on 3 June. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060505
Russia’s Energomash Research and Production Association is working on the technology of carrier rockets’ reusable first stages, Energomash Chief Designer Pyotr Lyovochkin said in an interview published in the June edition of the Popular Mechanics journal. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060400
Luokung Technology Corp. has announced a strategic partnership with LandSpace Technology Corporation Ltd. ("Land Space"). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060401
Harris Corporation will build and demonstrate a prototype ground antenna system under a U.S. Air Force Defense Innovation Unit programme designed to improve communications with the agency’s growing number of satellites. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060402
BlackSky announced it has signed an agreement with HawkEye 360, the first commercial company to use formation-flying satellites to create a new class of radio frequency (RF) data analytics. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060300
Viasat Inc. and Visiontec, a Brazilian-based satellite products distribution company, have partnered to bring high-speed satellite Internet to Brazil. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060301
In a memorandum dated 28 May, Secretary of the U.S. Air Force Heather Wilson and Secretary of the U.S. Navy Richard Spencer announced the transfer of responsibility for future narrowband satellite communications. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060302
The Proton M/Briz M launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 30 May at 1742 UTC successfully injected the Yamal-601 telecommunication satellite into orbit for the Russian satellite operator JSC Gazprom Space Systems. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019060200