by David Todd | May 23, 2014 | commercial launch services, Russia, Satellites
In spite of Russian Deputy Prime Minster, Dmitry Rogozin’s threat to ban all RD-180 powered launch vehicles from launching US military spacecraft, the flight of the ULA-operated Atlas V401 took off successfully from the Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida at...
by David Todd | May 19, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
A Delta IVM+ 4,2 launch vehicle, operated by the United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully put the navigation satellite GPS IIIF-6 into orbit from the Cape Canaveral launch base in Florida. The launch took place on 18 May at 0003 GMT. The spacecraft will eventually...
by David Todd | May 16, 2014 | commercial launch services, JAXA, Satellites
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Corp (MHI) has received a launch order from the Japanese satellite operation Sky Perfect JSAT to launch an unspecified satellite on a H-2A launch vehicle. The launch will take place from the Tanegashima launch site in Japan in 2016....
by David Todd | May 16, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, JAXA, On a Lighter Note, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
It used to be that whenever there was a space insurance conference being held, there always seemed to be a major launch or in-orbit failure at the same time or very soon after. That trend seems to be carrying on, for just hours after the delegates at the World Space...
by David Todd | May 15, 2014 | commercial launch services, Russia, Satellites, Space Insurance
The Proton M launch vehicle has had yet another launch failure. The Russian government launch which occurred from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan at 2142 GMT on 15 May 2014 failed to launch the Express 4R communications satellite after a suspected...
by David Todd | May 9, 2014 | commercial launch services, Russia, Seradata News
On 7 May 2014, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims removed its preliminary injunction preventing United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) purchase of the RD-180 rocket engines from RD AMROSS and NPO Energomash. The RD-180 is the first stage engine of ULA’s Atlas...
