News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Rocket: Chang Zheng 11H (Y2); Payload: nine Jilin-1 Gaofen 03-1 smallsats; Date: 15 September 2020, 0123 UTC; Launch site: De Bo 3 launch platform, Yellow Sea, China. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091500
ESA has awarded a EUR129.4 million contract covering the detailed design, manufacturing and testing of Hera, the Agency’s first mission for planetary defence. This ambitious mission will be Europe’s contribution to an international asteroid deflection effort, set to perform sustained exploration of a double asteroid system. The contract has been awarded to a consortium led…
NovelSat and Spacecom, operator of the Amos satellite fleet, announced the successful demonstration of high capacity satellite transmission with spectral efficiency of 10.5 bit/Hz over Amos-17 high performance HTS utilising NovelSat Duet CEC (carrier-echo-cancellation) band reuse technology. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091502
Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) has been selected to provide the science payloads for the two Janus spacecraft. Last week, Janus was approved by NASA to proceed with final design of the mission hardware, including the MSSS cameras (called "JCam"). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091400
The telecommunications satellite developed under ESA’s SmallGEO Partnership Project has passed three years of service in orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091401
China’s optical remote-sensing satellite Jilin-1 Gaofen 02C was lost in a launch failure. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091300
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been pressing forward with the development of the H3 Launch Vehicle. In the process, a technical problem was identified regarding the LE-9 first-stage engine, which is a new engine now under development. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091301
Reconstruction and modernisation of the Sea Launch space complex, currently based in Russia’s Far East, is expected to begin in November 2020, Roskosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin said in a video posted on YouTube. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091302
EUMETSAT and the other European and U.S. partners of the Jason-CS/Sentinel-6 programme have confirmed readiness of all systems and teams for the launch and operations of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091303
The Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar, ASECNA, has started broadcasting an SBAS (Satellite-Based Augmentation System) signal over the Africa and Indian Ocean (AFI) region, providing the first SBAS open service in this part of the world via NIGCOMSAT-1R. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091304