by David Todd | Apr 12, 2019 | commercial launch services, Russia, Seradata News
While Glavkosmos has a share in GK Launch Services, the marketing arm for Soyuz rockets, it will now get another body under its umbrella. By order of Roscosmos, Glavkosmos will now take over control of International Launch Services (ILS), the marketer of the Proton...
by David Todd | Apr 12, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Arabsat 6A, a 6,460kg communications satellite built by Lockeed Martin, was sent safely on its way by a Falcon Heavy launch via its injection to its 89,808 x 321km super-synchronous transfer orbit. The launch took place from the Kennedy Space Centre launch site, near...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Relativity Space Inc’s yet to fly the 3D printing technology launch vehicle Terran-1 has been awarded its first launch booking for multiple launches for the Canadian operator Telesat’s LEO broadband constellation. Terran 1 is designed to be built in only...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2019 | commercial launch services, Satellites
While start-up satellite firm Sky and Space Global has a formal launch contract with Virgin Orbit and an exploratory Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) contracts with China’s CGWIC, it has just signed a new MoU with Arianespace to launch 88 satellites on...
by David Todd | Apr 5, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites
At 1703 GMT on 4 April, four O3b satellites for the European SES satellite operator were launched by a Soyuz 2-1B rocket from the “European Space Port’s” Sinnamary launch site near Kourou in French Guiana. The rocket was operated by Arianespace....
by Matt Wilson | Mar 22, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Lifting-off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 0151 GMT on 22 March, an Arianespace Vega light-lift launch vehicle carried the Italian-made PRISMA (PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa) hyper-spectral Earth-Imaging satellite to a sun-synchronous low Earth...
