by David Todd | Jul 28, 2014 | commercial launch services, Seradata News
The prospective real-time imaging satellite operator OmniEarth LLC has signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with launch arranger Spaceflight Inc for shared launches in conjuction with its planned constellation of 18 satellites. Under the agreement, Spaceflight...
by David Todd | Jul 25, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, JAXA, NASA, Technology
Sierra Nevada Corp has signed memorandum of cooperative understanding with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) work on potential applications of Japanese technologies and the development of mission concepts for the Dream Chaser spacecraft. Additionally,...
by David Todd | Jul 18, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, ESA
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a launch contract with Arianespace for the launch Sentinel-1B, part of the joint ESA/EU Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. The launch is scheduled on a Soyuz rocket in 2016 from the Guiana Space Center,...
by David Todd | Jul 17, 2014 | commercial launch services, Technology
In a news release the US DARPA agency has announced the award of three research contracts examining configurations in its Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1). The prime contracts worth reportedly circa US$4 million for Phase 1 of XS-1 have been awarded to three teams: The...
by David Todd | Jul 16, 2014 | commercial launch services, NASA, Seradata News, Spaceport, Technology
At the Farnborough International Air Show, Space technology was in evidence – most noticeably the special Space Zone in Exhibition Hall 3 where UK and other countries had their space wares on display. There were also some big announcements. The UK Government...
by David Todd | Jul 14, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Six Orbcomm OG2 communications satellites (Orbcomm OG2-03, -04, -06,-07, -09 and -11) were successfully launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9V1.1 launch vehicle at 1515 GMT on 14 July 2014 from the Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida. The 172kg mass spacecraft built by...
