by Matt Wilson | Apr 13, 2021 | commercial launch services, exploration, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Astrobotic has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to fly its first GRIFFIN lunar lander to the Moon. This is the first mission for its larger lander product – its smaller PEREGRINE lander is due to fly this year. The GRIFFIN mission is planned to launch... 
by Matt Wilson | Apr 9, 2021 | International Space Station, Launches, Russia, Seradata News, space station
Lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 0742 GMT on 9 April the Soyuz MS-18 mission carried three crew members to the ISS. The mission utilised a Soyuz 2-1A rocket to loft the Soyuz capsule into a Low Earth Orbit (LEO), inclined at 51.6 degrees.... 
by Matt Wilson | Apr 9, 2021 | China, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
After a period of speculation concerning a planned Chinese launch, it lifted off at 2301 GMT, 8 April 2021 from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket carried the Shiyan 6-03 (Shiyan Weixing 6-03) to a high, 1,000 km, Low Earth Orbit... 
by Matt Wilson | Apr 8, 2021 | Finance, Seradata News
ORBCOMM released an announcement on 8 April 2021 stating that it had entered into an agreement to be bought by fellow American company GI Partners. GI Partners is a private investment firm based in California, looking to expand its “data infrastructure”... 
by Matt Wilson | Mar 26, 2021 | commercial launch services, Finance, Seradata News
On 25 March 2021 BlackSky Global, through its launch services provider Spaceflight Inc., signed a multi-launch contract with Rocket Lab covering nine of its Earth observation satellites. As per the contract Rocket Lab will conduct at least five Electron missions...
