News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
OHB Italia, a subsidiary of space and technology group OHB SE, signed a contract appointing OHB Italia as one of the two prime contractors performing a study of the Comet Interceptor mission, a new fast-class, deep space mission led by the European Space Agency. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111502
The UK subsidiary of SSC (Swedish Space Corporation) has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency ESA to develop a next generation concept for space to ground communications targeting the "NewSpace" (CubeSats and SmallSats) market. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111503
Rocket: Atlas V 531; Payload: NROL-101; Date: 13 November 2020, 2332 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The spacecraft was launched for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111400
Rocket: Chang Zheng-3B/G2; Payload: Tiantong 1-02; Date: 12 November 2020, 1559 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellite was deployed into a 170 km x 35,820 km x 28.44 degrees geosynchronous transfer orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111401
ESA has signed contracts with Thales Alenia Space in France and in Italy, and Airbus in Spain to build three of the new high-priority Copernicus satellite missions: CHIME, CIMR and LSTM, respectively. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111402
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Airbus Defence and Space as prime contractor for the new Land Surface Temperature Monitoring (LSTM) mission. The contract is valued at EUR380 million which includes the development of one LSTM satellite, with an option for two further satellites. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111403
Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a EUR93 million, first tranche of the EUR495 million global contract, with the European Space Agency (ESA) to build the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) environmental monitoring satellites. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111404
Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a EUR90 million first tranche contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to design and build the 2 environmental monitoring satellites of the Copernicus Hyperspectral Imaging Mission for the Environment (CHIME), the global amount being EUR455 million. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111405
Spaceflight Inc. announced that it is developing two additional next-generation orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) that will debut in 2021. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111200
China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation (CASC), and APT Satellite Company Limited (APT) have signed the contract of Apstar-6E satellite in-orbit delivery. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020111201