by David Todd | Mar 31, 2020 | NASA, Satellites, Science
On 30 March, NASA announced that it will be funding the development of six 6U-cubesats as part of its Sun Radio Interferometry Experiment (SunRISE) mission. The mission worth US$62.6 million will be launched on its way to a near geostationary orbital position,... 
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2020 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, SpaceX
SpaceX is looking ahead of the Coronavirus outbreak as it lands yet another launch contract. The global communications satellite operator Intelsat has chosen to launch its Maxar (SSL)-built Intelsat-40e communications satellite via a Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The... 
by David Todd | Mar 16, 2020 | exploration, NASA
Doug Loverro, new head of NASA’s human exploration directorate, has decided that the Gateway lunar space station concept, while good for longer-term operations, is not needed, and may actually slow initial human lunar landings currently planned for 2024. Thus, the... 
by David Todd | Feb 27, 2020 | NASA, On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson has passed away at the age of 101. She played a key role at NASA as a mathematician planning launch trajectories and re-entry modelling for the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing and the Mercury programme. She did this while overcoming the... 
by Matt Wilson | Feb 17, 2020 | commercial launch services, JAXA, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
Rocket Lab Rocket Lab has received a launch contract from NASA to carry the CAPSTONE, 12U CubeSat, to the Moon. The CAPSTONE satellite being built by Tyvak and Advanced Space, will be placed into a “near-rectilinear halo orbit” around the Moon. This is the... 
by David Todd | Feb 17, 2020 | Launches, NASA, Satellites
The Cygnus NG-13, which is also named Robert Lawrence Jr after the black astronaut who was unfortunately killed in a 1967 air crash before he got to fly into space, was launched by an Antares 230+ rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) located at...
