by David Todd | Apr 28, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, NASA, SpaceX
The US Air Force’s decision to award the joint Boeing/Lockheed Martin United Launch Alliance with a bulk buy of up to 36 Atlas V and Delta IV rocket launches without a proper competition has angered Elon Musk, leader and designer of Space Exploration...
by David Todd | Apr 28, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
In a sign of strengthening resolve over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its alleged attempts to annex Eastern Ukraine, Western nations are beginning to pull their spacecraft from Russian launches or bar commercial satellites from using them. Canada was first to go...
by David Todd | Apr 23, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, SpaceX
The space launch vehicle and spacecraft manufacturer Orbital Sciences Corp has a reported shortlist of three engines as it searches for a replacement engine for its Antares launch vehicle. The rocket currently uses two first stage engines of the NK-33 design which...
by David Todd | Apr 22, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, International Space Station, Seradata News, SpaceX
After various delays involving a radar station fire and a launch vehicle helium leak, the commercial unmanned space freighter, Dragon CRS 3, was successfully launched at 1915 GMT on 18 April 2014 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its mission carrying supplies to the...
by David Todd | Apr 15, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, Satellites
The secret satellite mission codenamed NRO L-67 for the US National Reconnaissance Office has been launched from Cape Canaveral Florida, by an Atlas V 541 launch vehicle on its way to a Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) mission position. The launch took place at 1745...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
At 1915 GMT on 9 April 2014, a Shavit 2 launch vehicle lifted off from the Palmachim Air Force base in Israel carrying the Ofeq 10 radar reconnaissance spacecraft. The launch was made into the less efficient westward direction – going against the benefit of the...
