by David Todd | Sep 17, 2014 | commercial launch services, Technology
The launch provider, United Launch Alliance (ULA) which is jointly owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and the commercial alunch start up, Blue Origin LLC , which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, have announced a joint project to build a new LOx...
by David Todd | Sep 16, 2014 | commercial launch services, NASA
While space experts (including this column) had tipped the more sophisticated Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Dream Chaser, in the end NASA “played safe” and went with two simpler low-development risk commercial spacecraft designs to launch its crews into...
by David Todd | Sep 15, 2014 | commercial launch services
The month of September marked a bumper harvest for Arianespace as it gathered in the fruits of its lower price strategy for smaller satellites. Five spacecraft were formally announced as having been booked on smaller satellite slots on Ariane 5 ECA, including Al Yah...
by David Todd | Sep 12, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites
In a project backed with US Export-Import bank finance, Space Systems/Loral was selected to construct a communications satellite for Bulgaria Sat, an affiliate of Bulsatcom, a leading telecommunications company and the largest provider of pay-TV services in Bulgaria....
by David Todd | Sep 12, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites
The MEASAT 3B direct-broadcasting communications satellite was launched along with the Optus 10 communications satellite into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) by an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle at 2205 on 11 September 2014 from the Kourou launch site in French...
by David Todd | Sep 10, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites
SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation formally awarded the launch contract for the communication satellite JCSAT-15 to Arianespace on 8 September 2015. JCSAT-15 will be launched by Ariane 5 in 2016 from the Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Built by Space...
