News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Due to impending weather and escalation of Hurricane Eta, ULA is now targeting Friday, 13 November at 2313 UTC for the launch of the NROL-101 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111100
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded two additional missions by NASA under the Commercial Resupply Services contract-2 (CRS-2) with launches occurring in 2023. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111101
The launch of the South Korean Earth observation satellite CAS500-1 from the Baikonur space centre aboard a Soyuz 2.1a is scheduled for March 2021, Glavkosmos Launch Services was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111102
Teledyne e2v will supply image sensors and detectors to the recently announced grouped proposal of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) industrial policy committee to place six Copernicus Sentinel satellite missions in space. As the sensor partner for Thales Alenia Space, the UK team will develop, manufacture and supply variants of their CapellaCMOS visible image sensor…
Kleos Space S.A. announced that it has received commitments to raise A$19 million (equivalent to EUR11.7 million or US$13.8 million) via a placement of approximately 26,388,889 new ordinary fully paid CDIs. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111104
For its seventh launch of the year, and the 17th by Vega since its introduction in 2012, Arianespace will orbit two satellites: SEOSAT-Ingenio for ESA, on behalf of the Spanish Center for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), and TARANIS for French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales). The launch is scheduled for 16…
Omnispace has signed a launch agreement with Exolaunch, which will deliver two Thales Alenia Space-built satellites into orbit aboard SpaceX’s rideshare missions. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111001
Due to impending weather and uncertainty related to Tropical Storm Eta, ULA is now targeting 12 November at 2318 UTC for the launch of the NROL-101 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, pending range approval. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111002
Arianespace announced a new contract to launch a communications satellite into geostationary orbit using Ariane 5. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020110900
NASA has extended the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission through 2023 with plans to revisit extending the mission through 2026. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020110901