by David Todd | Dec 7, 2018 | commercial launch services, Launches, NASA, Seradata News, SpaceX
While its reusable operations have, for the most part, gone well to date, every now and again SpaceX suffers a landing failure which makes the clockwork operation wobble. Having got to three uses with a single stage on the multiple satellite Vandenberg launch for...
by David Todd | Dec 4, 2018 | International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
While the Soyuz rocket has already flown in unmanned condition several times since its failure to put the Soyuz MS-10 crew into orbit earlier this year (the crew escaped safely), it had yet to fly humans since. This has now changed. A Soyuz FG successfully launched a...
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 27, 2018 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
At 2101 GMT on 27 November 2018, via UHF signals converted to X-band signals on two released Mars Cube One (MarCO A and B) data relay spacecraft and via the Deep Space Network on Earth, it was confirmed to NASA engineers, at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, that...
by David Todd | Nov 26, 2018 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, NASA, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, SpaceX
We joked a month or two ago that some would be wondering what Elon Musk had been smoking when they found out that the latest BFS (now called Starship) design had been deliberately changed to make it look more like Tintin’s rocket ship. Now NASA is apparently doing the...
by Matt Wilson | Nov 19, 2018 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, space station
Following a two-day delay the first Cygnus freighter, Cygnus NG-10, was launched on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) at 0901 GMT on 17 November 2018. The Cygnus was launched by another now Northrop product, an Antares 230 rocket – powered by two...
