by David Todd | Jan 17, 2020 | International Space Station, NASA
Having been unberthed at 0500 GMT on on 7 Jan 2019, the Dragon CRS-19 cargo spacecraft was fully undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) when it was released from the Space Station Remote Manipulator System at 1005 GMT on the same day. During its...
by David Todd | Jan 14, 2020 | exploration, NASA, Seradata News
While Boeing, Lockheed Martin and the Blue Origin-led “National Team” et al., have submitted their own bids to build the next human carrying lunar lander(s) for NASA, while its bid has been in for months, a new entrant into the competition was formally...
by David Todd | Dec 20, 2019 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA
With more than a tad of embarrassment, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine had to admit that the first launch of the first commercial crew-carrying spacecraft, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, had not gone to plan. While the spacecraft was launched as planned to a near...
by David Todd | Nov 19, 2019 | International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, space station
While the overall International Space Station (ISS) is so large that an individual science instrument is relatively insignificant – such was the importance of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS-2) – worth US$2 billion – that a series of...
by David Todd | Nov 12, 2019 | Blue Origin, exploration, NASA, Orion
The Presidential directive to put humans on the Moon by the end of 2024 is concentrating the mind of NASA’s leadership. To some extent NASA’s hands have been bound by past equipment choices with the ever-present problem of having very limited funds to enact such a...
by Matt Wilson | Nov 6, 2019 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, space station
Launching at 1400 GMT, on 2 November 2019, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Virginia, a top off an Antares 230+ rocket was the Cygnus NG-12 mission. Cygnus NG-12 is a commercial resupply mission to the ISS (International Space Station) contracted to...
