News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Northrop Grumman Corporation is set to launch the company’s 14th resupply mission (NG-14) to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092801
ArianeGroup has just signed several agreements with Airbus Defence and Space for the adaptation and construction of the third European Service Module (ESM) flight model for the Orion spacecraft. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092802
Rocket: Chang Zheng 4B; Payload: Huan Jing 2A, Huan Jing 2B (HJ-2A, HJ-2B); Date: 27 September 2020, 0323 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellites were deployed into approx. 600 km x 654 km x 97.98 degrees Sun-synchronous orbits. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092700
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) to provide launch services for the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which includes four secondary payloads. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092701
The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Lockheed Martin-built GPS III Space Vehicle 04 (GPS III SV04) satellite was encapsulated within a SpaceX payload fairing at Astrotech Space Operations Florida facility on 21 September in preparation for its upcoming launch on 30 September (UTC) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092702
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Enterprise and Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) recently signed a contract modification to reuse a Falcon 9 first-stage booster – for the first time on a National Security Space Launch mission – starting with the fifth Global Positioning System (GPS)-III satellite, scheduled to launch next…
The U.S. military has begun publicly sharing data for debris-on-debris conjunction predictions via www.Space-Track.org. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092704
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that it has joined with Microsoft to enable the launch of Microsoft Azure Orbital, a platform that provides Ground Station-as-a-Service (GSaaS) to the satellite industry. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092705
Exolaunch announced that it will arrange the launch and provide technical mission management for four of Spire Global’s Lemur-class 3U cubesats aboard a Soyuz-2.1b rocket mission scheduled for 28 September. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092400
A next-generation GLONASS-K satellite has been delivered to the Plesetsk cosmodrome ahead of a launch scheduled for 16 October, Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020092401