by David Todd | Jun 6, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
While the Sutherland Space Port had already been chosen to make vertical launches to near polar low Earth orbits, there was also a need for a UK airport to act as a spaceport for horizontal aircraft carried launch vehicle types for orbital and suborbital missions. In...
by David Todd | Jun 4, 2019 | commercial launch services, exploration, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
Space News reports that on 31 May 2019, NASA awarded lunar landing contracts initially to three companies out of the nine finalists in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS). The three winners of the contracts worth a total of US$250 million will make one...
by David Todd | May 23, 2019 | Blue Origin, commercial launch services, Military space, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata Announcements, Seradata News, Space Insurance, Technology
There is just a month to go to the Seradata Space Conference, Space Risks, Business and Insurance which takes place in London on 25 June 2019. We have put together a fantastic array of speakers who will inform, educate and entertain you. Our Headline Sessions include:...
by David Todd | May 21, 2019 | commercial launch services, ESA, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA/Earth Observation Programs directorate) have signed launch services contract for the launch on a Vega rocket of SEOSat (Spanish Earth Observation SATellite) for Spain’s Center for Development of Industrial...
by David Todd | May 21, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites
Arianespace has announced that it has been selected by exactEarth to launch the 110 kg ESAIL satellite using a Vega as part of the launcher’s Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof of Concept (POC) flight from Kourou, French Guiana, in 2019. This final contract...
by David Todd | May 13, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Military space
In October 2018, the US Air Force originally ordered three launches for the NRO L-91, L-68 and L-70 missions under a Launch Vehicle Production Services (LVPS) contract. The second of these missions has now had its contract modified requiring the addition of US$149...
