by David Todd | May 22, 2014 | Add category, Satellites, Technology
A plan to deploy a formation 104 “Femtosatellites” ended in failure after 3u-cubesat spacecraft, KickSat, which had been carrying the formation had an electronic fault. Kicksat’s micro controller apparently had suffered a hard reset on 30 April...
by David Todd | May 21, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, Satellites, Seradata News, Space Insurance
Introduction Held in Dubai every two years and organised by the underwriting agency Elseco, the World Space Risk Forum has now become the pre-eminent conference on space insurance. Space Insurers, brokers, satellite operators, manufacturers and launch providers along...
by David Todd | May 19, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
A Delta IVM+ 4,2 launch vehicle, operated by the United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully put the navigation satellite GPS IIIF-6 into orbit from the Cape Canaveral launch base in Florida. The launch took place on 18 May at 0003 GMT. The spacecraft will eventually...
by David Todd | May 19, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, JAXA, space station, SpaceX
Having been loaded and having had its hatch closed the day before, the SpaceX Dragon CRS 3 cargo spacecraft was un-berthed by the Space Station robot arm Canadarm-2 at 1200 GMT on 18 May 2014 and fully released the same day at 1326 GMT. The craft made a deorbit burn...
by David Todd | May 16, 2014 | Add category, NASA, Satellites, Science
Scientists at the University of Reading have discovered a cause and effect phenomenon which could revolutionise weather forecasting. By studying the solar wind, and measuring the relative frequency of lightning discharges on Earth, they have found was appears to be a...
by David Todd | May 16, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, JAXA, On a Lighter Note, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
It used to be that whenever there was a space insurance conference being held, there always seemed to be a major launch or in-orbit failure at the same time or very soon after. That trend seems to be carrying on, for just hours after the delegates at the World Space...
