by David Todd | Sep 30, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches
Arianespace announced on 30 September 2015 that it has signed a contract with the Argentinean operator ARSAT (Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales Sociedad Anónima) to launch its next geostationary satellite, ARSAT-3, plus options on two more launches. The...
by David Todd | Sep 28, 2015 | commercial launch services, India
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) conducted a successful launch of the PLSV-XL launch vehicle at 0430 GMT on 28 September 2015. The launch, which took place from the Sriharikota launch site, more formally known as the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, was...
by David Todd | Sep 24, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, Technology
Following its rejection of a US$2 billion bid by Aerojet Rocketdyne, United Launch Alliance has announced that its launch vehicles will use solid rocket boosters supplied by Orbital ATK instead of Aerojet Rocketdyne. The announcement is especially significant as it...
by David Todd | Sep 21, 2015 | China, commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
China successfully launched the first of a new generation of rocket- launched vehicles when the Long March-6 (CZ-6) rocket took off from Jiuquan in the Gobi desert. The flight, which took place at 2301 GMT on 19 September 2015, was seen as a key test of China’s new...
by David Todd | Sep 17, 2015 | commercial launch services
Faced with the prospect of the majority of US launch vehicles no longer using its engines, the US rocket engine firm, Aerojet Rocketdyne, has had to come up with a strategy for survival. That strategy became clear in September after it made an unsolicited US$2...
by David Todd | Sep 17, 2015 | commercial launch services, Russia, Satellites
At 1900 GMT on 14 September 2015, a Proton M launch vehicle, using a new DM-03 version of the Block DM series of upper stages, successfully launched the Express AM-8 communications spacecraft for the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC). The flight, which...
