by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | commercial launch services, India, Satellites
The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched a PSLV launch vehicle from the Sriharikota launch site in India at 2002 GMT on 15 October 2014. On board the flight was the IRNSS-R1C navigation satellite. The satellite had a launch mass was 1425 kg and a...
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | commercial launch services, Russia, Satellites
A new Russian military communications satellite called Luch (Olymp) was launched at 2023 GMT on 27 September 2014 by a Proton M launch vehicle. The satellite, which was built by ISS Reshetnev using the OLIMP-K (11K166) bus, will operate from a position of 167 degrees...
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | commercial launch services, JAXA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The Japanese meteorological satellite, Himawari 8, as successfully launched by a H-IIA (H-2A202) launch vehicle from the Tanegashima launch site in Japan at 0516 GMT on 7 October.2014. The spacecraft which was built for JAXA by the Mitsubishi Electric Corp (MELCO),...
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, Satellites
The cause of the failure which stranded two ESA/EU Galileo navigation satellites in a faulty Soyuz ST-B (Fregat MT) launch from Sinnamary, near Kourou, French Guiana, on 22 August 2014 has been found. The satellites were left in a wrong orbit after a frozen hydrazine...
by David Todd | Sep 22, 2014 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Science, Seradata News, SpaceX
The fourth launch in its NASA resupply contract for the International Space Station was successfully carried out by Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) using its Dragon CRS-4 spacecraft launched by its Falcon 9V1.1 rocket. The launch took place at 0552 GMT...
by David Todd | Sep 19, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites
At 0010 GMT on 17 September 2014, an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle, operated by the United Launch Alliance (ULA), lifted off from its launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida, USA, on its way to deliver a satellite payload dubbed CLIO to orbit. According...
