by Matt Wilson | Oct 11, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Following a launch abort at 0130 GMT, the Pegasus XL rocket successfully launched at 0200 GMT, 11 October 2019, carrying the NASA ICON satellite to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The ICON (Ionospheric Connection Explorer) satellite is part of the NASA Explorer programme...
by Matt Wilson | Oct 8, 2019 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
Kepler Communications have announced an launch agreement with Dutch-company Innovative Space Logistics B.V. (ISL). The agreement, in partnership with GK Launch Services of Russia, will see two 6U-CubeSat satellites launched into a sun-synchronous orbit during Q2-Q3...
by David Todd | Sep 12, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Momentus, the start-up planning to offer delivery services to other satellites from a low Earth orbit launch to GEO has now ordered a launch for its Vigoride Extended delivery tug. The spacecraft which uses water plasma thruster propulsion will be carried into orbit...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 2, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
It was revealed in company reports on 23 August that Ovzon, the Swedish satellite broadband company, had signed a deal with European launch provider Arianespace for a 2021 launch utilising the Ariane 5. This replaces a previously declared deal – recently described as...
by David Todd | Aug 19, 2019 | China, commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
After suffering a few days of high winds which delayed the launch, a Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched four small satellites to low Earth orbit at 1212 GMT from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. The satellites were the BlackSky Global-4, BRO-1, Pearl White 1 and...
by David Todd | Aug 15, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
While Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) aldready had a long standing relationship with the Boeing/Lockheed Martin co-owned United Launch Alliance (ULA) and originally planned to launch its Dream Chaser unmanned mini-shuttle using its Atlas V offering, times have moved...
