News & Events

Kacific Broadband Satellites Group has started directing resources towards the planning and design of its next satellite, Kacific2. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020110102

Orbcomm Inc. and Inmarsat announced that they will extend their agreement through at least 2035 and enhance their strategic partnership. The two companies will collaborate on joint product innovation and distribution of next-generation IoT satellite services, telematics devices and end-to-end solutions. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020110103

NXT Communications Corporation (NXTCOMM) has signed a capacity agreement with Eutelsat Communications for capacity on Eutelsat’s E117WA satellite, aimed to provide the Over-The-Air Testing of NXTCOMM’s proprietary flat-panel terminals that will offer high-speed connectivity to aviation, military and other mobility markets. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020110104

Rocket: Electron/Curie; Payload: CE-SAT-IIB, nine SuperDove satellites; Date: 28 October 2020, 2121 UTC; Launch site: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. The Electron launch vehicle successfully deployed the 10 commercial small satellites to approx. 510 km x 524 km x 97.50 degrees Sun-synchronous orbits. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020102900

ISRO said its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C49) will launch the radar imaging satellite EOS-01 as a primary satellite along with nine international customer satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, on 7 November. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020102901

ESA, CNES and ArianeGroup have jointly established a consolidated reference planning for Ariane 6 development, leading to a launch in Q2 2022. Vega-C’s maiden flight is currently planned for June 2021. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020102902

Firefly announced a substantial commitment to increase its manufacturing capacity by transitioning large parts manufacturing to Automated fibre Placement (AFP) Mongoose Hybrid systems from Ingersoll Machine Tools beginning next year. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020102903

D-Orbit announced the successful completion of the deployment phase of ORIGIN mission, the first of ION Satellite Carrier. ION, D-Orbit’s satellite platform, successfully released 12 SuperDove satellites for Earth-imaging company Planet, in the precise orbital slots requested by the client. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020102904

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has successfully stowed the spacecraft’s Sample Return Capsule (SRC) and its abundant sample of asteroid Bennu. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020102905

Maxar Technologies announced that it was selected by the U.S. Space Force to develop prototype mission data processing applications for the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Mission Data Processing (FORGE MDP) programme located within the Cross-Mission Ground & Communications Enterprise at the Space & Missile Systems Center. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020102906