by David Todd | Aug 23, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Seradata News
The final launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Medium rocket successfully carried the second Global Positioning System III navigation satellite, GPS IIIA-2 (aka Magellan) into orbit for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The launch took...
by David Todd | Aug 22, 2019 | Launches, Russia, Soyuz
At 0338 GMT on 22 August 2019, a Soyuz 2.1a rocket successully launched the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft into orbit from the Baikonur launch site, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. While such Soyuz MS spacecraft usually carry cosmonauts and astronauts, this flight had no humans...
by David Todd | Aug 20, 2019 | Launches, Reliability Info, Satellites, Seradata News, Space Insurance
Having already had most of their likely premium receipts eaten up by the US$416 million loss of the Falcon Eye 1 in a Vega launch failure, it was reported that the Chinasat-18 (Zhongxing-18) satellite might have suffered a similar demise – albeit after being...
by David Todd | Aug 19, 2019 | China, commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
After suffering a few days of high winds which delayed the launch, a Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched four small satellites to low Earth orbit at 1212 GMT from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. The satellites were the BlackSky Global-4, BRO-1, Pearl White 1 and...
by David Todd | Aug 19, 2019 | China, Launches, Satellites
At 0411 GMT on 17 August, the first launch of the four soild stage Jielong 1 (Smart Dragon SD-1) took place from its mobile launch placed at the Jiuquan launch site in Inner Mongolia, China. The launch was operated by its constructor, the China Rocket Co Ltd, which is...
by David Todd | Aug 15, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
While Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) aldready had a long standing relationship with the Boeing/Lockheed Martin co-owned United Launch Alliance (ULA) and originally planned to launch its Dream Chaser unmanned mini-shuttle using its Atlas V offering, times have moved...
