by David Todd | Nov 19, 2013 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
An Atlas V 401 launch vehicle operated by the United Launch Alliance, successfully launched NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft to Mars at 1828 GMT on 18 November 2013. Lift off of the $671 million mission occured from the Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida, USA. The...
by David Todd | Nov 15, 2013 | exploration, NASA
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover fell into safe mode on 7 November but was successfully recovered three days later on 10 November. A recent upgrade of software (R11) resulted in a discrepency error after a data file was compared to the catalogue file, which, in...
by David Todd | Nov 11, 2013 | exploration, History, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
A series of orbit raising manoevres for India’s controversial new space probe Mangalyaan in which the spacecraft would be raised to higher and higher Earth orbits before finally being injected into a high-efficiency Hohman transfer orbit, has been temporarily...
by David Todd | Nov 5, 2013 | China, exploration, History
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched India’s first Mars probe, the Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission, which was launched by a PSLV-XL from the Sriharikota launch site at 0908 GMT on 5 November 2013. There was a reported very slight...
by David Todd | Oct 17, 2013 | exploration, NASA, Satellites
NASA’s Juno mission to the Jovian system has had a hiccup on its way. Immediately after Juno’s closest approach to Earth during a gravity assist fly-by the craft went into safe mode due to an unknown cause on 9 October. The craft was successfully...
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2013 | exploration, History, NASA
The astronaut and second US citizen to orbit the Earth (after John Glenn’s flight), Scott Carpenter, has died at the age of 88. Naval aviator and test pilot, Scott Carpenter was a member of the original “Mercury Seven” group of astronauts and flew...
