by David Todd | Mar 31, 2020 | NASA, Satellites, Science
On 30 March, NASA announced that it will be funding the development of six 6U-cubesats as part of its Sun Radio Interferometry Experiment (SunRISE) mission. The mission worth US$62.6 million will be launched on its way to a near geostationary orbital position,... 
by David Todd | Mar 30, 2020 | Space Arts, Space politics
With the Coronavirus Covid-19 now paralysing the world – and, by the way, parts of its space industry – let us hope that some good comes of all of this and that governments can learn from it. In fact, they would have been wiser to have learned from two... 
by David Todd | Mar 27, 2020 | Launches, Military space, Seradata News
The newly inaugurated US Space Force had its first new satellite launched on 26 March. The AEHF 6 was launched at 2018 GMT from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, on a United Launch Alliance (ULA)-operated Atlas V in its 551 configuration. The AEHF 6 satellite will be used... 
by David Todd | Mar 24, 2020 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites
China successfully launched three Yaogan satellites, Yaogan 30-6-1, -2, and -3, at 0343 GMT on 24 March using a Long March 2C flying from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China. These Yaogan satellites are officially civilian in nature but are actually expected... 
by David Todd | Mar 23, 2020 | Reliability Info, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
While it was the mortality of humans was exercising the minds of most on Earth, it became apparent that something was badly wrong with the 11-year-old Venesat-1 (Simon Bolivar) Venezuelan communications satellite. It was summarily moved to a graveyard orbit in...
