News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
United Launch Alliance scrubbed the launch of a spy satellite for the U.S. Department of Defense for the second time this week due to weather-related complications. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020093000
GOES-T, the third satellite in NOAA’s GOES-R Series, is fully assembled and beginning a set of rigorous tests. The testing is taking place at Lockheed Martin Corporation’s Littleton, Colorado, facility, where the spacecraft was built. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020093001
Exolaunch announced a successful launch of 15 commercial, governmental and scientific satellites for its customers from Europe, Canada, the UAE and the U.S. The Mission dubbed "Wanderlust," Desire to Travel, lifted off on 28 September at 1120 UTC on a Soyuz-2 rocket, marking over 100 satellites deployed by the company. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092900
The first flight of the Russian Krylo-SV retrievable rocket stage is planned for late 2021, Foundation for Advanced Research head Andrei Grigoriev was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092901
Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA), a startup backed by space technology company OHB SE, will be establishing a launch site for a micro launcher together with Norwegian company Andøya Space. The two partners have now signed a letter of intent to this effect. The site is to provide launch services for small satellites from 2022.…
Rocket: Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat; Payload: Gonets-M No. 27, Gonets-M No. 28, Gonets-M No. 29, 19 smallsats; Date: 28 September 2020, 1120 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The Fregat upper stage deployed three Gonets satellites in their operational high-inclination orbit, followed by the release of secondary payloads into Sun-synchronous orbit. [Exact figures were not available at the time…
Northrop Grumman Corporation is set to launch the company’s 14th resupply mission (NG-14) to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092801
ArianeGroup has just signed several agreements with Airbus Defence and Space for the adaptation and construction of the third European Service Module (ESM) flight model for the Orion spacecraft. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092802
Rocket: Chang Zheng 4B; Payload: Huan Jing 2A, Huan Jing 2B (HJ-2A, HJ-2B); Date: 27 September 2020, 0323 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellites were deployed into approx. 600 km x 654 km x 97.98 degrees Sun-synchronous orbits. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092700
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) to provide launch services for the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which includes four secondary payloads. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092701