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...
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...
