by Matt Wilson | Mar 25, 2021 | commercial launch services, Constellation, Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
Arianespace, through its Russian joint venture Starsem, has launched a Soyuz 2-1B/Fregat M vehicle carrying 36 OneWeb satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO). The mission lifted off at 0247 GMT on 25 March 2021 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Siberia, Russia, and... 
by Matt Wilson | Mar 4, 2021 | commercial launch services, Constellation, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
On 4 March 2021 at 0824 GMT SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, carrying the long-delayed seventeenth batch of v1.0 Starlink satellites. On-board the flight were 60 Starlinks which were released into a sub-300 km... 
by Matt Wilson | Feb 9, 2021 | Constellation, Finance, Satellites, Seradata News
Canadian FSS operator Telesat took one of the final steps towards the establishment of its long-planned LEO constellation on 9 February. It announced who it had selected to build its constellation as well as revealing its new name, Telesat Lightspeed. The multi-year... 
by Matt Wilson | Feb 4, 2021 | Constellation, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
At 0619 GMT on 4 February, SpaceX launched another 60 Starlink satellites into LEO. The mission saw a Falcon 9 vehicle lift-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission successfully deployed its 60 STARLINK payload approx 1 hour 6 minutes after lift-off. The... 
by Matt Wilson | Jan 20, 2021 | Constellation, Satellites, Seradata News, Space politics, Technology
The European Commission has selected providers for the second-generation of its Galileo satellite navigation system. The announcement, on 20 January, identified European space industry stalwarts Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) and Thales Alenia Space (TAS) as the... 
by Matt Wilson | Jan 15, 2021 | Constellation, Finance, Seradata News
In a surge of activity, OneWeb – recently purchased by British/Indian interests – has applied to the US FCC for a “minor” amendment to its Phase 2 constellation proposal involving a considerable reduction in its planned number of satellites. In addition to this, on 15...
