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 David Todd | Mar 4, 2021 | Launches, Reliability Info, Seradata News, SpaceX
Having had two explosive landing attempt failures with the SpaceX Starship prototypes SN8 and SN9 at its Boca Chica launch and landing base in Texas, SpaceX engineer and commentator John Inspruker tempted fate on 3 February for the SN10 test flight by saying...
by David Todd | Mar 1, 2021 | commercial launch services, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science
NASA has selected Astra Space Inc. to provide a launch service via its Astra Rocket 3 for the agency’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of SmallSats (TROPICS) mission. According to NASA the launch service...
by Matt Wilson | Mar 1, 2021 | commercial launch services, India, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Launching for the first time in 2021 at 0454 GMT on 28 February a PSLV rocket lifted-off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR), India. The particular variant of PSLV flown is the recently introduced PSLV-DL with just two strap-on boosters. Amazonia-1 was the primary...
by Philip Hylands | Mar 1, 2021 | Launches, Russia, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Soyuz
Russia successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1b Fregat M vehicle carrying the Arktika-M 1 satellite into a highly inclined elongated Molniya orbit at 0655 GMT on 28 February 2021. The Arktika-M 1 satellite was built by NPO Lavotchkin for the Roshydromet (Russian Weather...
by Philip Hylands | Feb 24, 2021 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites
China launched three Yaogan 31-03 satellites, Yaogan 31-03-A, -B, and -C, into low Earth orbit at 0222 GMT on 24 February 2021. The satellites were launched on a Long March 4C (CZ-4C) launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China. The three...
