News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
A SpaceX satellite launch from Kennedy Space Center was scrubbed today because of a sensor reading. A few hours before, the launch of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket from rival United Launch Alliance was aborted seconds before lift-off (scheduled for 0354 UTC) from Cape Canaveral. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100100
Arianespace’s next Vega mission will orbit Spain’s SEOSAT/INGENIO high-resolution optical imaging platform, which is to monitor the Earth for civil and military uses; and the French Taranis microsatellite, to observe atmospheric emissions that occur above thunderstorms. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100101
Momentus Inc., a commercial space company offering in-space satellite transportation and infrastructure services, and ProXopS, LLC, a Texas-based systems engineering and integration company founded in 2010 with a concentration in space related technologies, announced the execution of a launch agreement for several slots in Vigoride rideshare missions from Q4 2021 to 2023. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020100102
SES Government Solutions (SES GS), a fully-owned affiliate of SES, and Isotropic Systems, a developer of transformational broadband terminal technologies, has announced a two-phased antenna evaluation contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, working in close collaboration with the U.S. Army Research Engineering Team, for tests of Isotropic Systems’ multi-beam terminal over SES’s O3b…
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…