by David Todd | Mar 20, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, Seradata News, Technology
The compromise “Eurofudge” decision, in late 2012, by the European Space Agency (ESA) both to pursue the ME upgrade to the Ariane 5 launch vehicle and to develop its solid/liquid based Ariane 6 successor looks likely to unravel. At a meeting between...
by David Todd | Mar 19, 2014 | commercial launch services, NASA, Satellites, Science
NASA has selected an Atlas V launch vehicle operated by United Launch Services LLC to launch the Solar Orbiter Collaboration mission to study the sun in July 2017. The Solar Orbiter will launch on an Atlas V 411 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral...
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2014 | commercial launch services, History, Russia, Technology
As our Ukranian crisis analysis predicted, the US Government is now concerned that a Russian-built rocket engine, the RD-180, is being used to power United Launch Alliance (ULA)-operated Atlas V launch vehicle, one of two types the US Department of Defence currently...
by David Todd | Mar 17, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
A Proton M Breeze M launch vehicle successfully launched two Express communications satelllites for a state owned Russian company at 2308 GMT from the Baikonur launch site, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan on 15 March 2014. The Express AT1 and AT2 carried were built by the...
by David Todd | Mar 12, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites
The launch provider ILS (International Launch Services) and the Russian satellite manufacturing firm ISS Reshetnev have announced a new collaboration agreement on opportunities to launch two spacecraft utilizing a dedicated ILS Proton launch vehicle. The...
by David Todd | Mar 12, 2014 | commercial launch services
Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services (LMCLS) is offering a 100 percent space launch vehicle “refund or reflight” program, to protect customers in the event of a total launch vehicle malfunction. The firm claims this new guarantee is a first for the industry....
