News & Events

AAC Clyde Space has reached an agreement to acquire 100 % of the shares in Hyperion Technologies BV, in a shares and cash deal. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100702

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: 60 Starlink satellites; Date: 6 October 2020, 1129 UTC; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, USA. The Starlink satellites deployed approximately 1 hour and 1 minute after lift-off. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100600

The U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) made two awards for another layer of its Tranche 0 National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA). SpaceX and L3Harris will build satellites for the tracking layer of the space-based portion of the missile defence system. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100601

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