News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
The Sea Launch maritime launch platform has been prepared to be moved from the U.S. to Russia, with all of its U.S. and Ukrainian-made components removed, a source in the Russian space industry has said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019100800
Lockheed Martin has been awarded nearly US$163.9 million for support of the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019100801
Cobham Gaisler announced that a consortium it is leading has been awarded a development contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) that will result in the design of an accelerator board suitable for Computer Vision (CV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for in-orbit space use. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019100802
Kepler Communications has signed a launch agreement with Innovative Space Logistics B.V (ISL) working with GK Launch Services to deploy two satellites into Sun-synchronous orbit in Q2-Q3 2020. The satellites will be the first of multiple batches of the next-generation platform, forming part of Kepler’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation for global data services. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019100700
ICEYE announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and a commercial reseller agreement with ST Engineering Geo-Insights Pte Ltd. to serve the commercial and government markets in South East Asia. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019100701
Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has completed assembly and installation of eight new antennas in Clewiston, Florida. The antennas will be used for supporting OneWeb. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019100702
Rocket: Chang Zheng-4C, Payload: Gaofen-10 [Gaofen-10R]; Date: 4 October 2019, 1851 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The observation satellite was deployed into a 612 km x 622 km x 97.78 degrees Sun-synchronous orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019100600
The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a U.S.-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science mission on 1 October. NASA and its mission partners made the decision to end the mission after detecting deterioration in the spacecraft’s power system. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019100601
ESA has signed a deal with Inmarsat to put satellite-based data communication links terminals on up to 20 aircraft flying commercial services across continental Europe. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019100602
Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX to launch its lunar lander, Nova-C, to the Moon in 2021 on a Falcon 9 rocket. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2019100300