by David Todd | Feb 17, 2016 | commercial launch services, ESA, Satellites, Science
While it may only have a few flights left in its career, Rockot is still working well. A Rockot/Breeze KM successfully launched the 1150kg Sentinel-3A spacecraft on behalf of the European Space Agency at 1757 GMT on 16 February 2015 from the Plesetsk launch site in...
by David Todd | Feb 17, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News, SpaceX
Concerns over the increasing delays to the maiden launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy (Falcon 9 Heavy) has led to Viasat to move its Viasat 2 spacecraft from that flight to Arianespace’s Ariane 5 ECA launch. The first Falcon 9 Heavy with the Viasat 2 aboard had...
by David Todd | Feb 8, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
At 1338 GMT on 5 February 2016, an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle, operated by the United Launch Alliance (ULA), successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida, USA. Aboard the flight was the GPS IIF-12 satellite, which was being launched into the US...
by David Todd | Feb 1, 2016 | commercial launch services, Russia, Satellites
A Russian-built Proton M Breeze M rocket, flown in the colours of a commercial flight offered by International Launch Services (ILS) successfully launched the Eutelsat 9B spacecraft into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) at 2220 GMT on 29 January 2016. The launch...
by David Todd | Jan 28, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites
A communications satellite with “high thoughput” capabilities of 25 gigabits per second, Intelsat 29e (Epic), was launched successfully into its transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 ECA at 1120 GMT on 27 January 2016 from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. Unusually, the...
by David Todd | Jan 15, 2016 | commercial launch services, ESA, International Space Station, NASA, SpaceX
NASA has awarded three Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-2) contracts worth several billion dollars each to Orbital ATK, Sierra Nevada and SpaceX to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) between 2019 to 2024. The maximum potential value of all...
