by Philip Hylands | Oct 3, 2018 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, Suborbital, Technology
The German Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) and Spanish, new-space, launch provider, PLD Space signed an agreement on 2 October, during the 69th IAC in Bremen, Germany, for the first test flight of the Arion 1 sub-orbital launch vehicle. The...
by Philip Hylands | Aug 20, 2018 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
At 1617 GMT on 15 August 2018, Cosmonauts Oleg Artemev and Sergey Prokopyev opened the hatch of the Pirs module on the International Space Station (ISS) to start a seven hour 46 minute spacewalk. The EVA ended at 0003 GMT on 16 August with the spacewalkers...
by Philip Hylands | Jun 7, 2018 | International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
At 1112 GMT on 6 June 2011 a Soyuz FG rocket took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. The crew aboard the Soyuz MS-09 (ISS-55S) spacecraft consisted of Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev, NASA Astronaut Dr Serena Aunon-Chancellor and ESA...
by Philip Hylands | Dec 4, 2017 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
China launched the Yaogan 31 (Yaogan Weixing 31) satellite into a Sun Synchronous low Earth orbit (LEO) at 0411 GMT, 3 December on a Long March 2D vehicle from launch complex LC43 at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. The satellite is officially reported to have a...
by Philip Hylands | Dec 4, 2017 | Seradata News
Russia successfully launched the Cosmos 2524 (Kosmos 2524) satellite into low Earth orbit (LEO) at 1043 GMT, 2 December on a Soyuz 2-1B launch vehicle from Launch site 43 at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Northern Russia. Cosmos 2524 is a Lotos S type satellite which is...
