by David Todd | Oct 29, 2020 | Launches, Satellites
A Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle launched the CE-Sat-2B earth observation satellite for the Japanese Canon Electronics firm. The launch also carried nine of Planet’s Flock-4e’ earth observation cubesats into orbit. The launch took place from the... 
by David Todd | Oct 26, 2020 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 vehicle carrying 60 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA at 1531 GMT on 24 October. The launch was the 15th flight of Starlink satellites and the 14th of fully operational ones. The launch vehicle’s... 
by David Todd | Oct 23, 2020 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia
Soyuz MS-16, having undocked from the International Space Station at 2332 GMT on 21 October 2020, proceeded to make its deorbit burn at 0200 GMT on 22 October before separate into three modules with the landing module carrying three crew Russian cosmonauts Anatoliy... 
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2020 | Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
NASA has formally awarded “Tipping Point” contracts worth a total of US$370 million to 14 firms to demonstrate new technologies for lunar and Mars exploration. No doubt stung by criticism that cryogenic storage and refueling technology would not be ready... 
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2020 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security – Regolith EXplorer) spaceprobe, having spent over a year using its cameras and spectrometers to image the small asteroid Bennu, on 20 October 2020 having left its...
