Satellite News

Rocket: Electron/Curie; Payload: CE-SAT-IIB, nine SuperDove satellites; Date: 28 October 2020, 2121 UTC; Launch site: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. The Electron launch vehicle successfully deployed the 10 commercial small satellites to approx. 510 km x 524 km x 97.50 degrees Sun-synchronous orbits.

ISRO said its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C49) will launch the radar imaging satellite EOS-01 as a primary satellite along with nine international customer satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, on 7 November.

ESA, CNES and ArianeGroup have jointly established a consolidated reference planning for Ariane 6 development, leading to a launch in Q2 2022. Vega-C’s maiden flight is currently planned for June 2021.

Firefly announced a substantial commitment to increase its manufacturing capacity by transitioning large parts manufacturing to Automated fibre Placement (AFP) Mongoose Hybrid systems from Ingersoll Machine Tools beginning next year.

D-Orbit announced the successful completion of the deployment phase of ORIGIN mission, the first of ION Satellite Carrier. ION, D-Orbit’s satellite platform, successfully released 12 SuperDove satellites for Earth-imaging company Planet, in the precise orbital slots requested by the client.

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has successfully stowed the spacecraft’s Sample Return Capsule (SRC) and its abundant sample of asteroid Bennu.

Maxar Technologies announced that it was selected by the U.S. Space Force to develop prototype mission data processing applications for the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Mission Data Processing (FORGE MDP) programme located within the Cross-Mission Ground & Communications Enterprise at the Space & Missile Systems Center.

Airbus SE reported consolidated financial results for the nine months ending 30 September 2020.