by David Todd | Dec 7, 2018 | Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
Using its past experience in building the Cosmo-Skymed radar satellite series, Thales Alenia Space has been approached to be part of the team building four new radar satellites for the South Korean Agency for Defence Development. The firm has since signed separate...
by David Todd | Dec 3, 2018 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
At 0227 GMT on 30 November 2018, a Russian military launch of three “Rodnik-S” satellites took place aboard a Rockot launch vehicle flying out of Plestetsk. Rodnik class spacecraft are small 225kg “store-forward” communications satellites used...
by David Todd | Dec 1, 2018 | History, International Space Station, Military space, NASA, On a Sadder Note, Satellites, Seradata News, space station
At the end of November there was yet another sign that the World War II veterans are becoming an endangered species. Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, who bravely served as a torpedo bomber aviator in the US Navy and who was even shot down, has passed away at...
by David Todd | Nov 30, 2018 | Military space, Seradata News
Having had its space companies barred by the European Commission from working on the EU Galileo navigation system after Brexit, the UK has decided to forge ahead with its own new satellite navigation system. In doing so, it was confirmed by Prime Minister Theresa May...
by David Todd | Nov 20, 2018 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
On 19 November 2018, a SAST-built and operated Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan launch site in china. The launch was aiming to place a Shiyan Weixing 6 satellite into a 500km Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit as well as some smaller satellites....
by David Todd | Nov 12, 2018 | commercial launch services, Military space, Science, Seradata News, Technology
This year’s Rispace – Reinventing Space – conference, which was held in London in November, had a blend of keynote speakers and technical presentations covering everything from satellite servicing to space debris. Unlike the overstuffed International...
