China successfully launched the Gaofen Multimedia and Xibaipo Star satellites at 0310 GMT on 3 July 2020 on a Long March 4B (CZ-4B) launch vehicle from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in China. Gaofen X is a high resolution (sub 1 metre) multi-mode electro-optical...
On 2 July 2020, Optus, an Australian regional satellite operator placed an order for the Airbus, all-electric, software-defined, OneSat platform. This marks the second customer for this platform. The satellite will be called Optus11, and will host a software-defined...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched the third GPS-3 (GPS III-3) navigation satellite into a transfer orbit on its way to its Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) operational location at 2010 GMT on 30 June 2020. The launch site was Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The...
The UK Government is reportedly providing £500 million as part of one of the bids for the partially completed OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) communications satellite constellation, which is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. With a UK version of the EU’s Galileo...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Ball Aerospace a contract worth US$96.9 million to build and operate the SWFO (Space Weather Follow-On) spacecraft to study the solar wind and provide early warning of Coronal Mass Ejection events on the...
European CubeSat and satellite component manufacturer GomSpace, has shut-down its fledgling Aerial & Maritime business. This news came from an announcement by the company on 16 June 2020. Aerial & Maritime Ltd. was formed in 2016 by an agreement between...
