by David Todd | Jan 28, 2021 | International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News
On 27 January 2021, two NASA spacewalkers conducted an extra vehicular activity to made some significant modifications to the International Space Station (ISS). Astronauts Victor Hopkins and Mike Glover began their spacewalk with the Quest air lock hatch being opened...
by David Todd | Jan 27, 2021 | Reliability Info, Satellites, Space Insurance
It was announced by Sirius-XM Radio on 27 January that its SXM-7 satellite which was launched by a Falcon 9 rocket on 13 December 2021 has suffered a major failure on its payload. Seradata understands that at failure during in orbit testing resulted in the loss of two...
by David Todd | Jan 25, 2021 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Space and satellite tracking analysts (including those at Seradata) were reeling at their increased workload as a total of 143 mainly “CubeSat” class satellites were launched by a Falcon 9 launch vehicle on SpaceX’s Transporter-1 launch. Lift-off...
by David Todd | Jan 20, 2021 | Seradata News
A Rocket Lab Electron KS rocket was launched into orbit from the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand at 0726 GMT on 20 January 2021 on its launch dubbed “Another one leaves the crust”. On board was a low Earth Orbit (LEO) communications satellite built by the...
by David Todd | Jan 20, 2021 | Seradata News
A Chinese Long March 3B/G3 (CZ-3B/G3) rocket lifted off from the Xichang launch site in China at 1625 GMT on 19 January 2021. The launch carried the Tiantong 1-03 (aka Tiantong-1 03) communications satellite which is designed to operate from geostationary Earth orbit...
