by David Todd | Feb 4, 2016 | Add category, Satellites
SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (SJC) has awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems, the spacecraft manufacturing arm of Lockheed Martin, a construction contract for JCSAT-17 commercial communications satellite. The spacecraft will be based on the Lockheed Martin A2100 bus...
by David Todd | Jan 4, 2016 | Add category
PT Telkom Indonesia, the largest telecommunication firm in Indonesia, has ordered a new communications satellite from the Canadian-owned, US-based manufacturer, Space Systems/Loral. The announcement was made by Space Systems/Loral on 30 December 2015. The satellite,...
by David Todd | Dec 21, 2015 | Add category, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz
The Soyuz 2-1a launch of Progress MS-01 took place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 0844 GMT on 21 December 2015. The spacecraft is the first of a new Progress-MS design which is an improved variant of the venerable Progress freighter...
by David Todd | Oct 22, 2015 | Add category, commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
Cogniscent of its growing backlog of cubesats in its Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ElaNa) programme, NASA has awarded for three individual flights on three small launch vehicles currently underdevelopment. The total value of the contracts is US$17.2 million....
by David Todd | Jun 22, 2015 | Add category, Satellites, Seradata News
Space News reports that a new outfit is in town with yet another constellation of small satellites. A Seattle-based firm called BlackSky is planning to launch a constellation of 60 50kg Earth imaging satellites, each with a ground resolution of 1m. The firm has...
by David Todd | Feb 12, 2015 | Add category, Seradata News
Lifting off from the Kourou launch site in French Guiana, a European Vega launch vehicle successfully lofted the 1,844kg experimental re-entry vehicle IXV at 1340 GMT on 11 February on a suborbital trajectory. IXV successfully conducted its planned sub-orbital flight...
