News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Airbus has been selected by Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat) to build Thuraya 4-NGS, the next generation mobile telecommunications system that will drive the continued advancement of Thuraya’s L-band business. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020082703
Russia’s space agency Roskosmos plans to deliver all of the Soyuz launch vehicles ordered by OneWeb early next year, the director general of Russian space manufacturer TsSKB-Progress, Dmitry Baranov, was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020082600
The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) completed the First Article Test (FAT) Increment 3 of the Mitigation and Anti-Jam Enhancement (MAJE) capability for the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) programme. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020082601
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the NROL-44 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office is delayed due to customer request. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020082500
Rocket Lab has announced that OHB Group has signed a contract for a dedicated launch on an Electron rocket. The launch was procured through OHB Cosmos International Launch Service GmbH, the launch service division of the OHB Group. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020082501
Russia’s State Space Corporation Roskosmos may launch up to three Angara rockets from the Plesetsk spaceport in the country’s north in 2021 as part of their flight tests, Roskosmos Chief Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020082502
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket is in final preparations to launch the NROL-44 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020082400
Capella Space is the customer for the next Rocket Lab mission, which will launch the company’s first Sequoia synthetic aperture radar satellite. The two-week launch window opens on 26 August 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020082401
The floating spaceport Sea Launch, currently based at Russia’s Slavyanka port in the Primorye Territory, will be restored, which will require about RUB35 billion (roughly US$470 million), Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020082402
Sea Launch started out as a multinational project in the post-cold-war 1990s. From today’s perspective it was a disaster, especially financially. What’s left is some old, low-tech maritime equipment, now moored at a shipyard in Russia’s Far East. A Russian company that bought Sea Launch’s leftovers apparently tries to to sell them to the Russian…