by David Todd | Feb 8, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
At a press conference marking the opening of its new new headquarters in Forres in Scotland, start-up launch UK-based launch provider Orbex both revealed an engineering prototype its new upper stage of its new two-stage Prime launch vehicle and announced that small...
by David Todd | Feb 7, 2019 | Launches, Satellites
Iran has suffered its second orbital launch failure of the year. Having already suffered a suspected third stage ignition failure of its larger Simorgh three-stage launch vehicle, losing the Amir Kabir 1 (Payam) satellite in January, now its smaller Safir launch...
by David Todd | Feb 7, 2019 | commercial launch services, exploration, Launches, NASA
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) celebrated the win in a competitive bidding situation of a NASA contract to launch the LUCY mission – a “Discovery-class” mission to the Trojan asteroids. The launch is to use an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle. The...
by David Todd | Feb 1, 2019 | Blue Origin, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Canadian geostationary communications satellite operator, Telesat, has signed a multi-launch agreement with Blue Origin, the start up launch firm founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, for the use of its New Glenn rocket. With its 7m long fairing and its 45 metric...
by Matt Wilson | Jan 25, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News, SpaceX
It has been reported by Reuters that Arianespace has lowered the launch price of its mainstay Ariane 5 launch vehicle, in response to fierce competition in the Asia-Pacific region from industry disruptor SpaceX. The two companies are competing for two satellite launch...
by David Todd | Jan 25, 2019 | India, Launches, Military space
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has inaugurated a new medium version of its PSLV rocket called the PSLV-DL which uses only two PSOM-XL strap on rockets instead of the more normal six. The first launch of this newly modified rocket on the PSLV-C44 flight...
