July 2019

According to Euroconsult’s newly released research, Government Space Programs: Benchmarks, Profiles & Forecasts to 2028, global government space budgets are in the early stages of a ten year growth cycle with total world expenditures reaching US$70.9 billion in 2018, and forecasted to grow to US$84.6 billion by 2025. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072804

Rocket: Hyperbola-1; Payload: CAS 7B, others ; Date: 25 July, 0500 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China. It was the first successful orbital launch by a privately funded Chinese firm. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072500

OneWeb plans to begin launching 35 to 40 communications satellites a month in December, and has 27 Soyuz rocket missions lined up through Arianespace to send them aloft, company officials said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072501

Airbus Defence and Space has completed the first step in the construction of the inner structure of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) JUICE satellite. This is the beginning of its earthly journey through different Airbus sites in Europe (Lampoldshausen, Friedrichshafen and Toulouse) towards final integration. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072502

NASA’s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, has given the go-ahead to begin fuelling the Mars 2020 rover’s Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, or MMRTG. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072503

The second earth bound orbit raising manoeuvre for Chandryaan-2 spacecraft has been performed successfully as planned. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072504

On 19 July 2019, mission operators sent a shutdown command to one of two Van Allen Probes spacecraft, known as spacecraft B, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, or APL, in Laurel, Maryland. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072505

The first Earth bound orbit raising manoeuvre for ISRO’s Chandryaan-2 spacecraft has been performed successfully on 24 July 2019 at 0922 UTC. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072400

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the University of Calgary, along with other partners, announced that they will develop Canada’s contribution to the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072401

ESA’s Aeolus satellite, which carries the world’s first space Doppler wind lidar, has been delivering global measurements of Earth’s wind since it was launched almost a year ago. However, part of the instrument, the laser transmitter, has been slowly losing energy. As a result, ESA decided to switch over to the instrument’s second laser. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019072402