by David Todd | Dec 13, 2018 | Satellites, Seradata News
Boeing Satellite Systems has officially cancelled the construction of the GiSAT 1 communications satellite for the Cayman Islands-based Global IP. Officially the cancellation of the construction order which was originally made in September 2016, was for a payment...
by David Todd | Dec 12, 2018 | Launches, Suborbital
Space News reports that Astra Space Inc – a successor company to Ventions, the California pump-fed rocket engine developer – is reported to have had a failure of its second test rocket on 29 November 2018 flying on a south-southwesterly track out of the...
by David Todd | Dec 12, 2018 | International Space Station, Russia
Russian cosmonauts Kononenko and Propkopev have made a spacewalk on 12 December 2018 to investigate the extent of the damage and the success of the repair work that was done to the Soyuz MS-09 orbital module when it was discovered that it had a hole drilled through...
by David Todd | Dec 10, 2018 | China, exploration, Launches, Seradata News
While lunar orbiters have imaged the lunar far side before, China is attempting a world first in trying to land its Chang’e 4 lander and rover mission near the South Pole there. The first stage of the mission went well with the successful launch of...
by David Todd | Dec 7, 2018 | Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
Using its past experience in building the Cosmo-Skymed radar satellite series, Thales Alenia Space has been approached to be part of the team building four new radar satellites for the South Korean Agency for Defence Development. The firm has since signed separate...
