by Matt Wilson | Sep 17, 2019 | Military space, Seradata News
Iridium Communications Inc, a provider of Mobile Satellite Services via its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) communications satellite constellation, has signed a seven-year Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) contract with the US Department of Defense. The EMSS contract...
by David Todd | Sep 10, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Satellites, Technology
Given its financial woes, it was not a surprise that Vector had to withdraw from its contract with the US Air Force to launch the Agile Small Launch Operational Normalizer (ASLON) 45 mission. That was originally supposed to be formed as an upper stage/delivery...
by David Todd | Sep 9, 2019 | ESA, Launches, Military space
An investigation has revealed the cause of the Vega launch failure on flight VV15, which lost the Falcon Eye 1 satellite causing an insurance loss of circa US$416 million. The sudden “violent” anomaly occurred after what appeared to be a successful launch from the...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 2, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
Launching on 30 August 2019, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, a Rockot launch vehicle has carried the GEO-IK-2 3 satellite to a Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The GEO-IK 2 satellites are third-generation Geodetic satellites launched for the Russian Ministry of Defence....
by David Todd | Sep 2, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Seradata News
In a Rose Garden speech outside of the White House, US President Donald Trump, has formally reinaugurated the US Space Command. This is, in effect, a release of US Space Command from the command structure of the US Strategic Command into which it was subsumed some...
by David Todd | Aug 23, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Seradata News
The final launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Medium rocket successfully carried the second Global Positioning System III navigation satellite, GPS IIIA-2 (aka Magellan) into orbit for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The launch took...
