by David Todd | Nov 10, 2014 | commercial launch services, Launches, Russia, Seradata News
The Japanese Earth observation satellite, Asnaro, was launched on 6 November at 0735 GMT from the Yasniy-Dombarovskiy launch site in the Orenberg region of Russia by a Russian converted ballistic missile, Dnepr 1A. The launch was provided by the commercial launch...
by David Todd | Nov 5, 2014 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA
While dwindling engine supplies meant that Orbital Sciences Corp already had a plan to replace its elderly AJ-26 (refurbished Russian NK-33) engines used in pairs on the first stage of its Antares launch vehicle, the need to do this has been accelerated by the recent...
by David Todd | Oct 28, 2014 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
The launch of the Orbital Sciences Antares 130 rocket carrying the Cygnus Orb-3 cargo craft to the International Space Station (ISS) came to a fiery end 12 seconds after its lift off at 2122 GMT on 28 October 2014 from the Wallops Island launch pad on the coast...
by David Todd | Oct 27, 2014 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, space station, SpaceX
The International Space Station said goodbye to two cargo craft in late October. Dragon CRS-4, operated as a recoverable “up and down” cargo freighter for NASA by SpaceX, was unberthed from the station by the ISS robot arm at 1202 GMT on 25 October and...
by David Todd | Oct 21, 2014 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, Satellites, Science, Spaceport, Technology
Too much to see, and too little time to see it is the usual complaint about IAC, especially with respect to the various parallel strands of technical sessions. Trying to get the timing right to switch between sessions for individual lectures was virtually impossible...
by David Todd | Oct 17, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites
At 2143 GMT on 16 October 2014, an Ariane 5 ECA rocket powered away from its launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, to inject two satellites into a transfer orbit on their way to a Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) location. The satellites carried were 6319kg Intelsat 30...
