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...
by David Todd | Nov 14, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites
After delays caused by wild fire damage to the launch base infrastructure, an Atlas V 401 rocket operated by the United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully lifted off from the Vandenberg launch site in California at 1830 GMT on 11 November 2016. On board was the main...
by David Todd | Nov 7, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches
Orbital ATK’s Antares 230 rocket is now back in service after its successful “return-to-service” mission on 17 October carrying the Cygnus OA-5/Alan Poindexter into orbit (along with four Lemur ship tracking satellites) for its docking with the...
by David Todd | Oct 28, 2016 | Blue Origin, commercial launch services, Launches, Technology
Salvatore T. “Tory” Bruno, President and CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA), lays out his plans for the company in an email interview with David Todd, Seradata’s Head of Space Content. The issues include how to keep ULA competitive in a more open market and why the...
by David Todd | Oct 27, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News, Technology
You realise you are in one of the great scientific institutions when you go to the toilet at the Royal Society. For black and white photographs of the great scientists and engineers of Britain’s past are on the wall next to the hi-tech toilet entrances. Perhaps...
by David Todd | Oct 25, 2016 | China, commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites
The International Satellite Company, has, with funding from its parent company – the regional satellite operator Thaicom, made a formal construction order for a new communications satellite to the China Great Wall Industry Corp (CGWIC), the one-time...
