Satellite News

Globalstar, Inc. and Echo Ridge, LLC have signed an agreement to collaborate, share data, and jointly pursue market opportunities for a new assured positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) technology that can backup and/or complement GPS when GPS is unavailable or unreliable.

Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) signed a NOK618 million (US$71.5 million) contract with Space Norway for the delivery of ground station services to provide satellite-based broadband in the Artic.

Rocket: Soyuz-2.1b; Payload: Meteor M2-2, 32 piggyback satellites; Date: 5 July 2019, 0541 UTC; Launch site: Vostochny, Russia. Within 4,5 hours after the launch the satellites were deployed into the planned operational orbits.

With unfavourable high-altitude winds above the Spaceport in French Guiana, Arianespace has taken the decision not to attempt a launch of Flight VV15 with the United Arab Emirates’ FalconEye1 satellite for the time being.

Russian specialists have replaced a battery in the Spektr-RG space telescope and its launch will take place on 12 July, Head of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roskosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in cryogenic rocket engine technology that can extend the orbital period of rockets from a few hours to 30 days, state media reported.

Ball Aerospace has officially commissioned NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) and begun on-orbit testing of a non-toxic, high-performance propellant. GPIM launched on 25 June 2019 on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) announced that it has successfully delivered its first HYDROS-C water-electrolysis thruster for integration with NASA’s first Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator (PTD-1) CubeSat.