by David Todd | May 22, 2019 | India, Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
A PSLV rocket lifted off at one second past midnight on the morning of 22 May 2019 from the Sriharikota launch site in India. The PSLV-C46 flght was carrying the Risat 2B radar satellite carrying an X-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar). The satellite has been...
by David Todd | May 13, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Military space
In October 2018, the US Air Force originally ordered three launches for the NRO L-91, L-68 and L-70 missions under a Launch Vehicle Production Services (LVPS) contract. The second of these missions has now had its contract modified requiring the addition of US$149...
by David Todd | May 9, 2019 | China, Military space, Seradata News, Space Arts, SpaceX
While the UK Prime Minister Theresa May might be at risk of being imminently fired herself – not least over her determined self-righteousness over her Brexit plan (Update on 28 May 2019: Prime Minister May has now given in her notice to quit and will leave...
by David Todd | May 8, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
At 0600 GMT on 5 May 2019, a Rocket Lab Electron KS rocket was launched from Onenui Station on the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. On board were the officially titled STP-27RD mission were three US military small satellites: The US Air Force Academy’s Falcon Ode...
by David Todd | Mar 29, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
An Electron rocket built and operated by RocketLab lifted off from the Mahia Penisula launch site in New Zealand at 2327 GMT on 28 March 2019. Aboard was a satellite called the Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration Satellite (aka R3D2) which will...
by David Todd | Mar 27, 2019 | India, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
India has conducted the Anti-Satellite (ASAT) test shooting down of one of its own spacecraft, using a missile interceptor system. Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that the interception, under a project codenamed Mission Shankti, destroyed an orbiting satellite. In...
