Satellite News

According to Euroconsult’s latest report, Prospects for the Small Satellite Market, a significant expansion is underway in the smallsat market, both in terms of demand and systems’ capabilities. About 7,000 smallsats are due to be launched over the next ten years, i.e. a six-fold increase from the 1,200 units launched over the past decade. About 50 constellations, two of which are mega constellations, account for over 80% of the smallsat count.

According to Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Small-satellite Launch Services Market Quarterly Update Q2 2018, launch demand is expected to increase to 11,740 small-satellites by 2030 with revenues reaching US$70.10 billion. Commercial players will offer and enable real-time imagery, digital transformation, and seamless global connectivity.

Spaceflight announced details behind its SSO-A mission, the largest single rideshare mission from a US-based launch vehicle to date.

The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) announced details of a new small satellite (smallsat) standard called a Launch Unit (Launch-U).

Lockheed Martin recently shipped the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, where it will be prepared for an October lift-off aboard an Atlas V rocket.

ISS-Reshetnev Company is preparing to commission into service phase 1 of a new assembly and testing facility.

At the meeting of the Board of Directors of RSC Energia held in the form of absent voting, a decision was taken to suspend the General Director of RSC Energia, Vladimir Solntsev from 4 August 2018 due to the termination an employment contract with him by agreement of the parties.

JAXA plans to launch a small lunar landing probe on an H-2A rocket in fiscal 2021. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, will be launched together with a successor model of the X-ray astronomy satellite Hitomi and will target a landing on a small crater in Mare Nectaris.