by David Todd | Dec 13, 2016 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Soyuz, SpaceX
In what is rapidly becoming a farcical situation within the NASA commercial crew programme, SpaceX has now admitted that its commercial crew capsule, “Crew Dragon” (aka Dragon V2), will have its first flight delayed from May 2017 until November. This flight will be...
by Matt Wilson | Dec 12, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, SpaceX
The Hellas-Sat 3/Europasat spacecraft which is co-owned by Inmarsat and the Arabsat subsidiary, Hellas-Sat, had previously been booked on-board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, it will now be lifted into orbit by an Arianespace-operated Ariane 5 rocket. Inmarsat, which was in...
by David Todd | Dec 6, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Military space, Satellites
The Gokturk 1 (Gokturk 1A) reconnaissance satellite was launched successfully at 1351 GMT on an Arianespace operated Vega launch vehicle flying out of the Kourou launch site in French Guaina. The launch was the eight mission success (seven orbital one suborbital) for...
by David Todd | Dec 1, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
The United Launch Alliance has jumped onto the internet sales wagon and now has a specially designed site to design your own launch mission with. Their Rocketbuilder.com site allows potential users to cost up their rocket according to which year, which fairing, which...
by David Todd | Nov 25, 2016 | commercial launch services, NASA, Satellites, Science, SpaceX
The launch contract to launch the Surface Water & Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission has been awarded by NASA to SpaceX. The launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 will fly from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in April 2021. The contracted price of the launch is...
by Matt Wilson | Nov 17, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites
In the first of what is planned to be three launches, an Arianespace, Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicle has lifted-off from Kourou, French Guiana, carrying four Galileo GPS satellites for the EU. The launch took place at 1306 GMT, 17 November, from the Ariane Launch...
