by Matt Wilson | Feb 20, 2020 | Finance, Seradata News
Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) have confirmed that job cuts will be taking place. This was suspected following announcements of “restructuring” made in December 2019. The Defence and Space part of the Airbus group will see 2,350 jobs lost, spread...
by Matt Wilson | Feb 17, 2020 | commercial launch services, JAXA, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
Rocket Lab Rocket Lab has received a launch contract from NASA to carry the CAPSTONE, 12U CubeSat, to the Moon. The CAPSTONE satellite being built by Tyvak and Advanced Space, will be placed into a “near-rectilinear halo orbit” around the Moon. This is the...
by Matt Wilson | Feb 17, 2020 | commercial launch services, Finance, Seradata News
Earlier in February 2020, American launch services provider Spaceflight Inc. – part of Spaceflight Industries Inc – announced that it would be sold to a pair of Japanese companies. The companies buying Spaceflight are; Mitsui & Co., Ltd, and Yamasa...
by Matt Wilson | Feb 7, 2020 | commercial launch services, Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
Launching at 2142 GMT, 6 February 2020, a Soyuz 2-1B rocket has carried 34 OneWeb satellites to LEO. The launch which, lifted-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, was part of the launch contract signed between OneWeb and Arianespace. This mission utilising...
by Matt Wilson | Feb 5, 2020 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
SpaceX has been given the contract to launch the upcoming PACE mission on a Falcon 9 vehicle. PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) is a NASA Earth Sciences mission to study phytoplankton as well as clouds and aerosols in the oceans. The mission is planned...
