News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
GHGSat announced it has successfully completed the first tranche of Series B funding, raising US$30 million and more than doubling the total amount raised since GHGSat was founded to over US$55 million. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091305
Gilmour Space Technologies said it has secured the first Australian customer for its maiden Eris rocket launch in 2022. Space Machines Company has contracted to launch a 35-kilogram spacecraft to orbit, the largest payload announced to date by an Australian space company. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091000
The University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin will soon lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: binary asteroids. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091001
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has successfully demonstrated GNSS-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) from its 18-kg DoT-1 satellite. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091002
A laser assembly for spacecraft that is capable of displaying advertising from space has passed stratospheric tests, according to the developer, Avant Space. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020091003
The top management of Russia’s state space corporation Roskosmos, as well as industry experts and S7 officials, have assessed the readiness of the Sea Launch space complex for missions of the prospective Soyuz-5 and Soyuz-6 rockets, Roskosmos said in a statement. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090900
The U.S. Space Force has declared Initial Operational Capability of the Electro-optical Infrared Weather System Geostationary (EWS-G1) spacecraft. EWS-G1, formerly known as GOES-13, was transferred to the U.S. Air Force by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 2019 under an agreement between the U.S. Air Force and NOAA for Interagency Cooperation on Collection…
D-Orbit delivered its first ION Satellite Carrier and successfully tested the orbital transport system. The rocket placed ION in a Sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 515 km with the spacecraft separating correctly from the dispenser. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090800
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror, which will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far, has been completed. Using this mirror, Roman (formerly known as Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope or WFIRST) will capture space vistas with a field of view 100 times greater than Hubble images. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090802
Rocket: Chang Zheng 4B; Payload: Gaofen 11-02; Date: 7 September 2020, 0557 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The optical remote sensing satellites was deployed into a 247 km x 694 km x 97.33 degrees transfer orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090700