by David Todd | Aug 8, 2014 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, Spaceport, SpaceX
In the same way that the US Air Force and NASA had to choose over fifty years ago, Jules Verne’s characters in “From Earth to the Moon” had to make a choice between Florida and Texas for their space mission launch site(actually the site of a giant cannon). In the end,...
by David Todd | Aug 6, 2014 | commercial launch services, Seradata News
Having decided to create a new joint venture company to streamline the process of building European launch vehicles, Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) and Safran have chosen their man to lead it. Alain Charmeau, 57, who is currently Head of Operations, Space...
by David Todd | Aug 5, 2014 | commercial launch services, Russia
The launch provider International Launch Services (ILS), which acts as the commercial marketing arm of the Russian rocket maker Khrunichev and its Proton launch vehicle, has laid off 25% of its staff. Officially, the cause of the lay-offs has been cited as due to...
by David Todd | Aug 5, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, SpaceX
The Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) launch provider had another successful launch of a commercial communications satellite as its Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket successfully put the Asiasat 8 communications satellite into orbit. After a launch abort two and a half hours...
by David Todd | Aug 4, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
At 0323 GMT on 2 July on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle, operated by the United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully placed the GPS IIF-7 spacecraft into orbit. The launch took place from the Cape Canaveral launch site, in Florida. The spacecraft which is part of the ...
by David Todd | Jul 31, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, International Space Station, Satellites
At 2347GMT on 29 July 2014, the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) final Automated Transfer Vehicle, ATV 05 (Georges Lemaitre) was launched into orbit on top of an Arianespace-operated Ariane 5ES launch vehicle. The lift off of flight VA219 took place from...
