News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: GPS III SV03; Date: 29 June 2020, 2010 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The spacecraft was to be separated from the rocket’s first stage about 89 minutes after lift-off (too late for this issue). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020063000
The two payloads that will ride together on Arianespace’s upcoming Ariane 5 heavy-lift mission have arrived at the Spaceport in French Guiana to begin their pre-launch processing. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020063001
As winds at altitude above the Guiana Space Center remain unfavourable, the final chronology operations for Vega’s Flight VV16 mission have been suspended. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020062900
The cost of Russia’s Angara rockets will be reduced before 2024 from the current sum of RUB7 billion to RUB4 billion (from US$100.3 million to US$57.3 million), according to the 2019 financial report of the Khrunichev Space Center (the Angara rocket manufacturer). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020062901
Hispasat has won a contract with Artel to embed the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Pathfinder 2 mission on its Amazonas Nexus Satellite, which is being built by Thales Alenia Space and expected to be launched in mid-2022. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020062902
Arianespace’s first rideshare flight for Europe’s Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) as well as a Falcon 9 launch of Starlink satellites have been postponed. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020062800
The Lockheed Martin-built GPS III SV03 satellite was encapsulated within a SpaceX payload fairing at Astrotech on 21 June in preparation for its upcoming launch on 30 June from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020062801
On behalf of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA has awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III) contract to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, for the Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020062802
L3Harris Technologies has been selected by the U.S: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct four studies which will inform the agency’s next generation of Earth observation satellite architecture. The studies assess mission concepts, spacecraft and instruments. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020062803
Kleos Space S.A. is launching new data collecting technology (software defined radio payload) integrated in an In-Space Missions(In-Space) Faraday-1 spacecraft to be launched into a Sun-synchronous orbit from New Zealand by Rocket Lab in a week’s time as part of the company’s R&D programme. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020062804