by David Todd | Jul 14, 2014 | commercial launch services, NASA
At 1652 GMT on 13 July 2014, a Orbital Science Corporation Antares 120 rocket lifted off from its Wallops Island launch site in Virginia carrying the Cygnus Orb 2 (Janice Voss) cargo craft to the International Space Station. Apart from the 1,494kg of cargo the craft...
by David Todd | Jul 11, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
At 1855 GMT on 10 July 2014, four O3b satellites were successfully launched by a Soyuz ST-B/Fregat MT launch vehicle from the Sinnamary launch site near Kourou in French Guiana. The flight was the second launch for the O3b Networks satellite constellation which aims...
by David Todd | Jul 9, 2014 | commercial launch services, Russia, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
At 1558 GMT on 8 July 2014 a Soyuz 2-1B/Fregat M launch vehicle successfully placed the 2.5 metric ton Meteor 3M-N2 Russian weather satellite into Sun-synchronous orbit. The launch took place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan....
by David Todd | Jul 4, 2014 | commercial launch services, Russia, Satellites
At 1243 GMT on 3 July 2014, a Rockot/Breeze KM launch vehicle successfully popped out of its silo on its way to a successful launch from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia. Rockot is a reworked ballistic missile. The three Gonet’s spacecraft,...
by David Todd | Jul 3, 2014 | commercial launch services, SpaceX
Mobile satellite communications service operator Inmarsat announced that it has contracted with Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) to provide launch services for Hellas-Sat 3/EuropaSat, the satellite it will jointly own with Hellas-sat (which is in turn owned by...
by David Todd | Jul 2, 2014 | commercial launch services, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
Having lost its OCO (Orbiting Carbon Observatory) in a Taurus XL launch failure in 2009, and two years later losing its GLORY climatology mission on the same vehicle, NASA turned instead to the venerable and reliable Delta II rocket to launch its replacement for OCO. ...
