by David Todd | Sep 16, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, SpaceX
During September 2015, Spanish satellite operator Hispasat S.A. has announced that it has signed two launch contracts – one with International Launch Services (ILS) for a Proton M launch, and one with SpaceX for a launch on Falcon 9. The exact identities of the...
by David Todd | Aug 29, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
While it may have rued the one-year delay in completing its Global Xpress high-speed mobile broadband data constellation, mainly due to Proton launch failures, Inmarsat’s luck at least held for the Proton M/Breeze M launch of its own Inmarsat 5F-3 communications...
by David Todd | Aug 24, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, NASA
During August 2015, Orbital ATK was awarded two more cargo mission launches using their Cygnus cargo craft by NASA. The NASA CRS-1 contract extension to the original seven plus one optional (since converted to a full order) missions already contracted to fly cargo to...
by David Todd | Aug 24, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
In one of its heaviest ever launches, two major communications satellites were launched by Ariane 5 ECA at 2034 GMT on 20 August 2015 from the Kourou launch site in French Guiana (flight VA225). Including the adaptors, the launch pushed to total payload carried to...
by David Todd | Jul 23, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
While the organisation witnessed the launch of its last Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) weather satellite, MSG-4, (to be called Meteosat 11)on an Ariane 5 ECA in July, it was also planning the launches of its third generation 3-axis stabilised spacecraft. ...
by David Todd | Jul 22, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches
Arianespace posted the 66th consecutive successful Ariane 5 launch with the flight of the Ariane 5 ECA VA224 launch with lifted off from in French Guiana at 0942 GMT on 15 July 2015, carrying Star One C4 communications satellite for the Embratel’s Star One...
