by David Todd | Oct 21, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, Russia, Satellites
At 2040 GMT on 16 October 2015, an International Launch Services (ILS) marketed Russian-built Proton M/Breeze M launch vehicle successfully lifted off its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. Aboard the launch vehicle was the TURKSAT 4B...
by David Todd | Oct 7, 2015 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
During September 2015, after a review over their enforceability by the US Patent and Trademark office, the Blue Origin company decided to withdraw 13 of the 15 patent claims it had made against SpaceX over the latter’s subsequent use of a vertically landing...
by David Todd | Oct 2, 2015 | commercial launch services, exploration
The Google Lunar X-prize contender Moon Express has ordered three Rocket lab Electron launches in its bid to win the US$20 million prize. Two of the launches will take place in 2017 from the Rocket Lab’s Kaitorete Spit launch site in New Zealand. Both of...
by David Todd | Oct 2, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
While most launches of the Atlas V are dedicated to launching US military and government payloads via the Boeing/Lockheed Martin joint firm United Launch Alliance (ULA), every now and then, Lockheed Martin operates a “commercial” Atlas V in the schedule. ...
by David Todd | Oct 1, 2015 | commercial launch services, Russia, Seradata News
Boeing has won its case in a US District Court in California against its former partners in the Sea Launch operation, the Russian firm of RSC Energia, and the Ukrainian firm of Yuzhnoye, for the repayment of monies owed to it as part of the debts it incurred...
by David Todd | Sep 30, 2015 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, SpaceX
The intermediary launch provider Spaceflight Services Inc has added to its plan to fly a SHERPA dispensing craft on a shared Falcon 9 launch, by booking a dedicated launch on another Falcon 9 flight from SpaceX. The company plans to launch Sun Synch Express flight...
