by David Todd | Feb 25, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
The commercial version of the Minotaur launch vehicle, the Minotaur-C, has been selected to launched six Skybox imaging satellites, by Skybox Imaging. The Earth-imaging spacecraft, which have resolutions of up to 0.8m, will be launched into a 500km Sun-Synchronous...
by David Todd | Feb 24, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites
On 19 February, 2014 European launch provider Arianespace and Italian company CGS S.p.A. announced the launch contract for the OPTSAT 3000 satellite. At the same time, Arianespace also announced that it had signed a launch contract with the Israeli Space Agency for...
by David Todd | Feb 21, 2014 | commercial launch services, International Space Station
The Orbital Science Cygnus Orb 1 unmanned freighter spacecraft which resupplied astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has now been detached from the Harmony module and deliberately re-entered into the Earth’s atmosphere. Over a month after the...
by David Todd | Feb 17, 2014 | commercial launch services, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
At 2109 GMT on 14 February, a Proton M/Breeze M rocket successfully launched the Turksat 4A communications satellite into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. The spacecraft was built in Japan by the Mitsibushi Electric Company (Melco) using a version of its DS-2000...
by David Todd | Feb 7, 2014 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
An Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle successfully placed twocommunications satellites, Athena-Fidus and ABS-2 into orbit after its launch from the Kourou launch site in French Guiana at 2130 GMT on 6 February. Stormy weather delayed the launch by one hour. Athena-Fidus is...
by David Todd | Feb 5, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, Satellites, Seradata News
The European Space Agency (ESA) has converted a previously contracted back-up launch on a Rockot to a firm agreement with Eurockot Launch Services GmbH for placing into orbit an additional spacecraft from the Copernicus Sentinel range of satellites. Sentinel-5p will...
