News & Events

Three satellites of the Gonets-M series have been released from storage at ISS-Reshetnev Company. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090702

exactEarth Ltd. announced the successful launch of the ESAIL microsatellite. Developed under ESA’s ARTES Partnership Project for global ship tracking, the ESAIL satellite was launched on 3 September onboard the Arianespace Vega (VV16) flight, from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090703

Rocket: Chang Zheng 2F; Payload: reusable experimental spacecraft; Date: 4 September 2020, approx. 0730 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The spacecraft landed at 0200 UTC on 6 September after two days in a 331 km x 347 km x 50.2 degrees orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090600

The Progress Rocket and Space Center has repaired the Fregat upper stage that led to a postponement of a Meridian satellite launch from the Plesetsk spaceport in January. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090601

Rocket: Vega; Payload: 53 satellites); Date: 3 September 2020, 0151 UTC;Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite passengers on the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof of Concept rideshare mission were released during a flight sequence lasting 1 hour, 44 minutes from lift-off to final separation, involving multiple deployments with the SSMS dispenser. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090300

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: 60 Starlink satellites; Date: 3 September 2020, 1246 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The Falcon 9’s upper stage engine injected the 60 Starlink satellites into an on-target orbit inclined at 53 degrees. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090301

Rocket Lab has launched its first in-house designed and built operational satellite. The satellite, named ‘First Light’, is the first spacecraft from Rocket Lab’s family of configurable Photon satellites to be deployed to orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090302

NASA and Northrop Grumman successfully conducted a full-scale static fire test of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor, known as Flight Support Booster (FSB-1), in Promontory, Utah, on 2 September. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090303

Satelit Nusantara Tiga (SNT) and Thales Alenia Space announced the signature of a Preliminary Work Agreement to start the activities of the broadband telecommunication satellite SATRIA. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090304

Lockheed Martin and Ball Aerospace successfully completed a phased array transmit test for a Multi-Band, Multi-Mission (MBMM) antenna. MBMM helps enable multiple satellites to simultaneously connect with a single-phased array antenna system using multiple frequencies. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020090305