October 2019

SES S.A. announced its financial results for the nine months ending 30 September 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019102803

Russia’s Roskosmos space agency has agreed to move up the launch of the Progress MS-13 cargo spacecraft to the ISS at NASA’s request, representatives from both space agencies confirmed on Thursday. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019102700

The U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile System Center released a Request for Information (RFI) to learn more about industry’s innovative developments in launch, on-orbit manoeuvrability, and commodity transport architectures for on-orbit servicing. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019102701

Roskosmos subsidiary Energomash is preparing to deliver three more RD-180 engines for use with Atlas-5 launch vehicles, the company reported on Friday. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019102702

Reaction Engines has successfully tested its precooler at airflow temperature conditions representing Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, marking a significant milestone in the development of its SABRE engine. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019102703

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will carry along as many as 14 small foreign satellites in its next three PSLVs (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles) over the next two months, sources close to ISRO confirmed. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019102400

Eutelsat Communications said is currently investigating an incident on one of the two solar arrays on its Eutelsat 5 West B satellite. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019102401

NASA has found no trace of the Indian lunar lander, dubbed Vikram, in the images captured during its Moon orbiter’s latest flyby of the lunar region where the lander made a hard landing on 7 September, Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission Noah Petro said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019102402

Nanoracks announced that it has signed an agreement with Maritime Launch Services to work on re-purposing and re-using spent C4M [Cyclone-4M, Tsiklon-4M] rocket upper stages, which would be in-orbit after launch missions from Nova Scotia’s Canso Spaceport, Canada’s first and only commercial spaceport. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019102300

The Global Positioning System enterprise reached another major milestone on 21 October when the GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) successfully connected with the first GPS III satellite on orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019102301