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Saturn Satellite Networks to be first customer of Northrop Grumman’s OmegA

Northrop Grumman announced Dec. 12 that Saturn Satellite Networks, a startup satellite manufacturer, will be the customer for the first OmegA launch in 2021.
SpaceNews.com

                        WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman announced Dec. 12 that Saturn Satellite Networks, a startup satellite manufacturer, will be the customer for the first OmegA launch in 2021.
Northrop said Saturn will fly one or two of its NationSat small geostationary satellites on an OmegA rocket launching from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B in the spring of 2021. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
Saturn is a firm founded by former executives of satellite operator ABS to develop small geostationary satellites with digital payloads. Saturn announced in September its intent to acquire NovaWurks, a California company that has been developing smallsats using modular platforms that can be expanded. Saturn...

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House preparing to introduce new NASA authorization bill

A House committee is finalizing its version of a NASA authorization bill that will cover many of the same topics as a Senate bill, but do so in different ways.
SpaceNews.com

                        WASHINGTON — A House committee is finalizing its version of a NASA authorization bill that will cover many of the same topics as a Senate bill, but do so in different ways.
In a speech Dec. 11 at a space law conference here, Rep. Kendra Horn (D-Okla.), chair of the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee, said her committee was making progress on a new NASA authorization bill that would address issues such as ensuring continued progress on major agency programs, like its effort to return humans to the moon.
“We’re getting close” on a bill, she said. “Stay tuned. We should have more on that soon.”
The last NASA authorization bill passed by Congress was the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017, signed into law i...