News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Airbus has completed the ocean satellite ‘Copernicus Sentinel-6A’, and is now sending it to Ottobrunn near Munich in Germany, where over the next six months the satellite will undergo an extensive series of tests at Industrieanlagen Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) to prove its readiness for space. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090300
Details have emerged regarding the incident involving ESA’s Aeolus and one of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. SpaceX meanwhile blamed a "a bug in our on-call paging system" for its failure to co-ordinate evasive manoeuvres with ESA. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090301
Eutelsat announced its withdrawal from the C-Band Alliance ("CBA"), which has been formally notified to the CBA members. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090302
The Vikram Lander successfully separated from the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter at 0745 UTC on 2 September 2019. Vikram is currently in a lunar orbit of 119 km x 127 km. The Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter continues to orbit the Moon in its existing orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090200
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that commissioning of NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), the primary hosted payload on-board the Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite, is now underway. GA-EMS’ OTB was successfully launched on 25 June 2019 on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090201
Russia’s space observatory Spektr-RG, which was launched in July to observe the universe at X-ray wavelengths, has moved away from Earth to a distance of 1.6 million kilometers, according to Dmitry Rogozin, chief of Russia’s space corporation Roskosmos. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090202
The European Space Agency had to move one of its satellites out of the way to protect it from colliding with a SpaceX Starlink satellite, the space agency just announced on Twitter. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090203
Rocket: Rokot; Payload: Geo-IK-2 No. 13L (Kosmos 2540); Date: 30 August 2019, 1400 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. All pre-launch operations and the launch itself were normal. Ground facilities of the Aerospace Force monitored the rocket’s launch and flight. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090100
Rocket: Kuaizhou-1A [KZ-1A]; Payload: KX-09 [Kuxue-09], Xiaoxiang 1-07 [TY 1-07]; Date: 30 August 2019, 2341 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The two satellites were deployed into a 592 km x 608 km x 97.8 degrees orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090101
The final and fifth Lunar bound orbit manoeuvre for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was performed successfully on 1 September 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019090102