by David Todd | Jan 21, 2020 | commercial launch services, Launches, Military space, Seradata News
The idea of “rapid launch” has been much mooted in the past, but is now finally becoming a reality. The New Zealand based rocket provider Rocket Lab has announced that the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has ordered an Electron launch for its...
by David Todd | Jan 17, 2020 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
A pair of communications satellites, Eutelsat-Konnect and GSAT-30, were successfully launched by an Ariane 5 ECA rocket into a 35764 x 245 km orbit six degree inclination geosynchronous Transfer orbit (GTO). The launch of the VA251 flight took place from the Kourou,...
by David Todd | Jan 3, 2020 | China, commercial launch services, India, Launches, Russia, Seradata News, Suborbital
While still high relative to recent years, the space launch total for 2019 at 102 orbital attempted launches was more than 10 per cent down on last year’s figure of 114. China continued to dominate, again taking the number one spot with 34 launches. These included the...
by David Todd | Dec 20, 2019 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA
With more than a tad of embarrassment, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine had to admit that the first launch of the first commercial crew-carrying spacecraft, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, had not gone to plan. While the spacecraft was launched as planned to a near...
by David Todd | Dec 17, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
SpaceX successfully launched the JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 satellite at 0012 GMT on 17 December using a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket. The launch took place in the eastward direction from a launch pad at the Cape Canaveral air station in Florida. The reusable first stage...
by David Todd | Dec 17, 2019 | commercial launch services, SpaceX
Northrop Grumman made a big show of its mainly solid rocket-based OmegA, aimed at the military and government market, at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2019) in Washington DC in October. But it was not until 12 December that the company announced that...
