by David Todd | Apr 16, 2019 | exploration, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Technology
While Hollywood has long flagged the dangers of asteroid and comet impact via its science fictional disaster movies Meteor (1979), Deep Impact (1998) and Armageddon (1998), real life space seemed to have no solution to the threat. Now NASA, in conjunction with John...
by David Todd | Apr 12, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Arabsat 6A, a 6,460kg communications satellite built by Lockeed Martin, was sent safely on its way by a Falcon Heavy launch via its injection to its 89,808 x 321km super-synchronous transfer orbit. The launch took place from the Kennedy Space Centre launch site, near...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Relativity Space Inc’s yet to fly the 3D printing technology launch vehicle Terran-1 has been awarded its first launch booking for multiple launches for the Canadian operator Telesat’s LEO broadband constellation. Terran 1 is designed to be built in only...
by David Todd | Apr 5, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites
At 1703 GMT on 4 April, four O3b satellites for the European SES satellite operator were launched by a Soyuz 2-1B rocket from the “European Space Port’s” Sinnamary launch site near Kourou in French Guiana. The rocket was operated by Arianespace....
by David Todd | Apr 2, 2019 | India, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
A new version of India’s PSLV rocket made a launch of 29 satellites plus its own repurposed upper-stage spacecraft. This new version was the PSLV QL which carries four solid rockets instead of the more normal six. The launch took place at 0357 GMT on 1 April...
by David Todd | Apr 1, 2019 | China, Launches, Satellites
China has launched the latest version of its Tianlian data relay satellites which are broadly equivalent to NASA’s TDRS types. The Tianlian 2-01, which uses the DFH-4 bus design, was launched at 1551 GMT from Xichang aboard a Long March 3B-G2. Before this...
