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Worldwide Satellite Magazine — October 2015 Satmagazine Off to Orbit Worldwide Satellite Magazine — October 2015 SatMagazine Off To Orbit Arianespace Galileo 8 + 9 / Sky Muster + ASTRA-2 China Qianshao-3 / Gaofen-9 / Beidou India Astrosat / LEMUR x 4 / LAPAN-A2 / NLS-14 Russia Express AM-8 / COSMOS MILSATs x3 United Launch Alliance MUOS-4 SatMagazineOctober 2015 Publishing Operations InfoBeam Silvano Payne, Publisher + Writer Spaceflight Goes Big For The “Wee Ones” — Smallsat Ridesharing................................... 6 Hartley G. Lesser, Editorial Director Pattie Waldt, Executive Editor Maneuvers Make Good .......................................................................................................... 7 Jill Durfee, Sales Director, Editorial Assistant Local Launches For Smallsats In Middle East — “Space For All” Vision .............................. 8 Simon Payne, Development Director Donald McGee, Production Manager Arianespace Announces AVUM’s Arrival ............................................................................. 10 Dan Makinster, Technical Advisor Sean Payne, Small Satellite Specialist SSTL’s DMC3/TripleSat’s First 1 Meter High Resolution Imagery Released ...................... 10 Milestone: The One Hundredth 1300 Platform ................................................................... 12 Senior Contributors More Launches For Arianespace ......................................................................................... 13 Tony Bardo, Hughes NASA’s Smallsats To Push The Boundaries Of Space-To-Earth ......................................... 14 Richard Dutchik, Dutchik Communications Moving On Up @ ILS ............................................................................................................ 15 Chris Forrester, Broadgate Publications Karl Fuchs, iDirect Government Services Bob Gough, Carrick Communications Features Jos Heyman, TIROS Space Information Launch-O-Rama ................................................................................................................... 16 Carlos Placido, Placido Consulting Giles Peeters, Track24 Defence In-Space Trucking With VASIMR® Engines ..................................................................... 30 Koen Willems, Newtec By Dr. Mark Carter A New Gun For Hire: An Interorbital Systems Perspective .......................................... 34 Authors by Randa Relich Milliron Dr. Mark Carter Terry Neumann Effective Maintenance + Troubleshooting Of Earth Stations ........................................ 40 Dan Dunn Jamie Welton By Dan Dunn Randa Relich Milliron Vicky Wong Sheri Morita Advanced Smallsat Technologies Take On Commercial Markets .................................. 42 A Tyvak Perspective Protect C-Band Satellite Networks—An AsiaSat Perspective ....................................... 44 By Vicky Wong Advertiser Index The Growing Value Of VSAT At-Sea: An iDirect Perspective ....................................... 48 By Terry Neumann Advantech Wireless ........................................11 Arabsat Satellite ...............................................9 Commercial Launch Sector’s Rapid Growth For Smallsats ............................................ 52 AsiaSat ...................................................... Cover By Jamie Welton AvL Technologies .............................................2 Is GaAs Dead? .................................................................................................................... 54 CASSBAA Convention — Hong Kong ...........64 By Sheri Morita Comtech EF Data ...........................................13 CPI Satcom Products ........................................7 Space Tech Expo Launches In Bremen, Germany ........................................................... 56 Int’l 2015 Astronautical Federation ...............47 ................... 58 Keysight Technologies Inc. ..............................3 Executive Spotlight: Rick Goerner, Executive Vice President, Microsemi MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd ...............5 European EO Industry Survey Is Examined By EARSC .................................................. 62 Newtec CY ......................................................17 RUAG Space ...................................................19 SatMagazine is published 11 times a year by SatNews Publishers, 800 Siesta Way, Sonoma, CA 95476 Satnews Publishers — Digital Editions ..........61 USA, Phone: (707) 939-9306, Fax: (707) 939-9235 © 2015 Satnews Publishers Satnews Publishers — SatFinder ...................51 We reserve the right to edit all submitted materials to meet publication content guidelines, as well as SSPI—Future Leaders Dinner—New York .....33 for grammar and spelling errors, or to move articles to an alternative issue to accommodate publication space requirements, or remove content due to space restrictions. Submission of content does not Teledyne Paradise Datacom LLC ...................15 constitute acceptance of said material by SatNews Publishers. Edited materials may, or may not, be returned to author and/or company for review prior to publication. The views expressed in SatNews Publishers’ various publications do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of SatNews Publishers. All rights reserved. All included imagery is courtesy of, and copyright to, the respective companies and/or named individuals. 4 SatMagazine — October 2015 InfoBeam News Headline 5 SatMagazine — October 2015 5 InfoBeam Spaceflight Goes Big For The ‘Wee’ Ones—Smallsat Ridesharing Spaceflight, one of the companies reinventing the model for launching small satellites into space, announced the purchase of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and the expansion of its launch services to include dedicated rideshare missions. Spaceflight’s first dedicated rideshare mission, named the “2017 Sun Synch Express,” will launch in the second half of 2017 to a sun-synchronous Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which is popular for Earth imaging satellites. Dedicated rideshare is a new launch alternative that blends cost-effective rideshare pricing with first-class service typically associated with buying a private rocket. Spaceflight’s dedicated rideshare missions will deliver customer spacecraft to popular destinations, such as sun-synchronous and geosynchronous transfer orbits, and provide a new solution for smaller satellites that cannot afford a complete launch vehicle. “By purchasing and manifesting the entire SpaceX rocket, Spaceflight is well positioned to meet the smallsat industry’s growing demand for routine, reliable access to space,” said Curt Blake, President of Spaceflight’s launch business. “Our purchase of a private rocket further continues our mission of providing a customer-focused, full- service launch experience.” Spaceflight’s 2017 Sun Synch Express mission launches, combined with Spaceflight’s cross- Spaceflight’s dedicated rideshare routes are manifest includes satellites as small as 5 kg section of customers and variety of mission- not tied to any particular primary satellite 3U CubeSat up to 575 kg satellite. Over 20 applications, is a strong indicator of the mission, so commercial and non-commercial satellites will be deployed during the mission, growing capabilities of small satellites and smallsat operators using the service will with commercial customers pursuing a range the need for more timely and cost-effective benefit from the certainty of set launch of endeavors and government-sponsored access to space. schedules that were not previously available scientific research originating from six different to rideshare customers, and can thereby countries. The manifest is nearly at capacity. In addition to the new dedicated rideshare avoid delays resulting from geo-political service, Spaceflight will continue to manifest issues or primary satellite schedule changes. “Dedicated missions for Rideshare-class small satellites as secondary payloads aboard payloads are an excellent way to promote several launch vehicles around the world to a This enables customers with spacecraft that space enterprise and research,” said variety of orbit destinations. range in mass from 5 to 2500 kg to create Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of long-range mission plans to Sun Synch and SpaceX. “We are pleased that Spaceflight Spaceflight is the only rideshare launch GTO with more dependable launch dates. has successfully brought this multi-faceted provider that publishes launch pricing and Spaceflight is creating steady access to space partnership together. schedules online, aiming to make access to with yearly dedicated rideshare missions space as easy as booking an airline ticket. planned beginning in 2017. Spaceflight has launched 81 satellites to date and has more than 135 satellites to deploy www.spaceflight.industries/ through 2018. The frequency of satellite 6 SatMagazine — October 2015 InfoBeam Maneuvers Make Good Space Systems/Loral (SSL) announces the company’s advanced satellite designed and built for nbn, Australia’s new broadband network, which was launched yesterday (see the Launch-O-Rama feature in this issue), has successfully performed post-launch maneuvers, all according to plan. Artistic rendition of Sky Muster. Image is courtesy of SSL. The high capacity broadband satellite deployed its solar arrays on schedule following its launch aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite will initiate the firing of its main thruster tomorrow morning in order to propel the spacecraft toward final geosynchronous orbit. The satellite, known as Sky Muster, is an all Ka-band, high-throughput
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