by David Todd | Apr 8, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, India, Satellites, Seradata News
At 1144 GMT on 4 April 2014, a PSLV-XL launch vehicle successfully lifted off from the Sriharikota launch site in India, carrrying the IRNSS-R1B navigation satellite for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. The spacecraft which was built by ISRO (Indian...
by David Todd | Apr 8, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, Satellites, Soyuz
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel 1A radar satellite was successfully launched into a Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit on board a Soyuz ST-A/Fregat M launch vehicle from its Sinnamary launch site near Kourou, French Guiana at 2102 GMT on 3 April 2014. ...
by David Todd | Apr 8, 2014 | Add category, Satellites
The meteorological satellite DMSP 19 was launched successfully by an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle which lifted off from the Vandenberg launch site in California, USA, at 1446 GMT on 3 April 2014. However since the launch, it has been revealed that the...
by David Todd | Apr 7, 2014 | Add category, ESA, Satellites, Seradata News
Space News reports that Airbus Defence and Space has beaten its European spacecraft constructor rival Thales Alenia Space to win the contract to build the first part of the Metop Second Generation (Metop SG) spacecraft series. ESA will pay €800 million as its share...
by David Todd | Apr 7, 2014 | Add category, Russia, Satellites
For several hours starting at 2100 GMT on 1 April 2014, the entire Russian Glonass satellite navigation system (Russia’s equivalent to GPS) failed. Media sources initially reported that the fault lay with ground controllers who apparently uplinked faulty...
by David Todd | Apr 7, 2014 | Add category, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
While NASA’s Administrator Bolden may have been a little too upbeat about the Ukrainian crisis’ effect on US/Russian cooperation in space – especially in respect to the International Space Station (ISS), as NASA, under the apparent direction from...
