by David Todd | Mar 23, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News
While Orbital ATK awaits the completion of engine refitting to its Antares launch vehicle (two RD-181 engines replace two NK-33 derived AJ-26 engines), it booked two ULA Atlas V 401 flights to fulfil its NASA CRS-1 cargo contracts. The second of these flights...
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
Space News reports that a senior United Launch Alliance (ULA) executive, Brett Tobey, has lost his job (by resignation) after revealing a little too much about the past and present decisions of the firm during a public lecture at the University of Colorado in Boulder,...
by David Todd | Mar 11, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches
At the launchers’ session at Satellite 2016 in Washington D.C. representatives of the main commercial launch providers laid out their planned launch totals for the 2016 year. In summary the planned launch numbers are as follows, with the SpaceX very high...
by David Todd | Mar 8, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
The U.S.-New Zealand launch provider Rocket Lab has signed a contract in February with aspirant small weather satellite constellation Spire for up to twelve launches of its Electron rocket. No details were provided on how many of its 5kg mass satellites, which use...
by David Todd | Mar 8, 2016 | Add category, commercial launch services, Russia
Inmarsat has taken out an option for a launch on an ILS (International Launch Services) Proton rocket in case its plan to launch the Hellas-Sat 3/Europasat on a Falcon Heavy falters. That launch was booked to take place in late 2016, however, SpaceX has now moved this...
by David Todd | Mar 7, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, SpaceX
After a series of delays variously involving upper-level winds, straying boats, propellant loading faults and a related low-thrust abort, the Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket finally lit up the skies over Florida as it took off from Cape Canaveral at 2335 GMT on 4 March...
