Northrop Grumman, NASA complete environmental testing on JWST – Satellite News Digest
Northrop Grumman Corporation and NASA have completed environmental testing on the James Webb Space Telescope. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100602
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Northrop Grumman Corporation and NASA have completed environmental testing on the James Webb Space Telescope. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100602
GHGSat has signed an agreement with ABB to deliver payloads for GHGSat’s next three methane detecting satellites. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100603
The launch of Russia’s next-generation GLONASS-K navigation satellite, which has been postponed several times, is being rescheduled from 16 October to 25 October, a space industry source was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100500
Russia will launch its first Amur reusable methane-fuelled rocket in 2026, State Space Corporation Roskosmos Executive Director for Long-Term Programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100501
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Cygnus spacecraft was successfully captured at 0932 UTC on 5 October after its launch on the company’s Antares rocket on 3 October (UTC) from Wallops Island. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100502
BlackSky, a leading provider of global monitoring services, geospatial intelligence and satellite imagery, announced its fifth and sixth global satellites have completed commissioning and are in commercial operations. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100503
Kongsberg has been awarded a contract for signal processing equipment that provides improved mobile coverage in areas with insufficient ground network. The equipment is to be integrated in Airbus Defence and Space’s new mobile communication satellite, Thuraya 4-NGS. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100504
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. and Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced that the companies have agreed to terminate the merger agreement first announced on 29 January 2020 and have settled all pending litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery. In connection with the termination and settlement agreement, Comtech has agreed to make a payment of US$70.0 million…
Rocket: Antares; Payload: Cygnus; Date: 3 October 2020, 0116 UTC; Launch site: Wallops Flight Facility, USA. After the nine minute ascent, the S.S. Kalpana Chawla, named for the first woman of Indian descent to fly in space, was deployed into orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100400
SpaceX scrubbed the launch of a GPS III satellite from Florida on 3 October (UTC) two seconds before the planned lift-off, just as the engine ignition sequence was beginning. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100401