by David Todd | Apr 22, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, International Space Station, Seradata News, SpaceX
After various delays involving a radar station fire and a launch vehicle helium leak, the commercial unmanned space freighter, Dragon CRS 3, was successfully launched at 1915 GMT on 18 April 2014 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its mission carrying supplies to the...
by David Todd | Apr 22, 2014 | Add category, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
At the end of its (her) mission, NASA’s LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment) spacecraft crashed into the lunar surface on the Far Side of the Moon on the morning of 18 April 2014. The impact occurred at 0430 and 0522 GMT. NASA plans to image the...
by David Todd | Apr 22, 2014 | Add category, Satellites, Seradata News
The US-based,Canadian-owned satellite manufacturer, Space Systems/Loral, has been awarded a contract to build the JCSAT 15 and JCSAT 16 communications satellites for the Japanese satellite operator Skyperfect/JSat. The spacecraft are to be constructed using the Space...
by David Todd | Apr 15, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, Satellites
The secret satellite mission codenamed NRO L-67 for the US National Reconnaissance Office has been launched from Cape Canaveral Florida, by an Atlas V 541 launch vehicle on its way to a Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) mission position. The launch took place at 1745...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
At 1915 GMT on 9 April 2014, a Shavit 2 launch vehicle lifted off from the Palmachim Air Force base in Israel carrying the Ofeq 10 radar reconnaissance spacecraft. The launch was made into the less efficient westward direction – going against the benefit of the...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, Russia, Soyuz, space station
The unmanned freighter spacecraft, Progress M-023M (ISS-55P), was successfully launched on a Soyuz-U launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, at 1526GMT on 9 April 2014. After using the “fast” six-hour engine burn...
