by David Todd | Feb 8, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
At a press conference marking the opening of its new new headquarters in Forres in Scotland, start-up launch UK-based launch provider Orbex both revealed an engineering prototype its new upper stage of its new two-stage Prime launch vehicle and announced that small...
by David Todd | Feb 7, 2019 | commercial launch services, Satellites
Space News reports that German launch arranger Exolaunch (previously known as ECM) has ordered multiple missions of the Vigoride delivery spacecraft/space tug from the Momentus firm under a US$6 million contract. While not specified, the contract implies that five...
by David Todd | Feb 7, 2019 | commercial launch services, exploration, Launches, NASA
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) celebrated the win in a competitive bidding situation of a NASA contract to launch the LUCY mission – a “Discovery-class” mission to the Trojan asteroids. The launch is to use an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle. The...
by Matt Wilson | Jan 25, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News, SpaceX
It has been reported by Reuters that Arianespace has lowered the launch price of its mainstay Ariane 5 launch vehicle, in response to fierce competition in the Asia-Pacific region from industry disruptor SpaceX. The two companies are competing for two satellite launch...
by David Todd | Jan 24, 2019 | commercial launch services, Seradata News
When Stratolaunch announced that it was developing its own range of launch vehicles in addition to its very large double hulled carrier aircraft, many analysts remained sceptical – mainly over the amount of money this would take. This was despite the fact that...
by David Todd | Jan 23, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has made a launch order to Rocket Lab for an Electron launch of its 150kg technology test satellite called the Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration – aka R3D2 – which will test out...
