by David Todd | Dec 18, 2018 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Having ordered a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch for its satellite, start up satellite operator Ovzon realised that it would need to order one to launch on it. As it eyes giving a mobile broadband service to the Middle East and African region, Ovzon has now ordered a...
by David Todd | Dec 17, 2018 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites
Rocket Lab launched its Electron launch vehicle at 0633 GMT on 15 December 2018 from its Mahia Peninsula launch site in New Zealand. The launch carried 13 cubesat class spacecraft for NASA totalling 83kg by mass.There were launched under its Educational Launch of...
by David Todd | Dec 12, 2018 | Launches, Suborbital
Space News reports that Astra Space Inc – a successor company to Ventions, the California pump-fed rocket engine developer – is reported to have had a failure of its second test rocket on 29 November 2018 flying on a south-southwesterly track out of the...
by Matt Wilson | Dec 10, 2018 | China, commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Launching from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, located in Northern China, at 0412 GMT, on 7 December 2018, a SAST (Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology) Long March-2D (CZ-2D) rocket lifted-off to LEO (Low Earth Orbit) for CGWIC (China Great Wall Industry...
by David Todd | Dec 10, 2018 | China, exploration, Launches, Seradata News
While lunar orbiters have imaged the lunar far side before, China is attempting a world first in trying to land its Chang’e 4 lander and rover mission near the South Pole there. The first stage of the mission went well with the successful launch of...
by David Todd | Dec 7, 2018 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
London-based satellite operator Inmarsat has made a “booking” with Japan’s Mitsibushi Heavy Industries (MHI) for a launch of one of Inmarsat’s satellites on a Japanese H-3 rocket. The lower cost new generation expendable H-3 (H-III) rocket...
