by David Todd | Jun 4, 2019 | commercial launch services, exploration, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
Space News reports that on 31 May 2019, NASA awarded lunar landing contracts initially to three companies out of the nine finalists in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS). The three winners of the contracts worth a total of US$250 million will make one...
by David Todd | May 23, 2019 | Blue Origin, commercial launch services, Military space, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata Announcements, Seradata News, Space Insurance, Technology
There is just a month to go to the Seradata Space Conference, Space Risks, Business and Insurance which takes place in London on 25 June 2019. We have put together a fantastic array of speakers who will inform, educate and entertain you. Our Headline Sessions include:...
by David Todd | May 10, 2019 | Blue Origin, NASA, Technology
While US Vice President Mike Pence’s target for a US human landing on the surface of the Moon was doubted by some – not least because a lunar lander would take years to develop – now there could be a solution. Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos has revealed, in a...
by David Todd | May 8, 2019 | International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
The SpaceX Dragon CRS-17 cargo freighter spacecraft, on a resupply mission for NASA, was successfully launched into low Earth orbit by a Falcon 9 at 0648 GMT on 4 May on its way to dock with the International Space Station (ISS). The Falcon 9 first stage landed on the...
by David Todd | Apr 26, 2019 | International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, space station
The Cygnus NG-11 unmanned cargo spacecraft, which is named Roger Chaffee after the astronaut killed in the 1967 Apollo 1 fire, was launched into a low Earth orbit on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) based...
by David Todd | Apr 23, 2019 | NASA, SpaceX
The delayed unmanned launch, docking and recovery of the SpaceX Crew Dragon DM-1 capsule went without a hitch when it finally happened in March, but disaster has since struck the capsule – and with it, NASA’s plan to fly astronauts on a new Crew Dragon in July. NASA’s...
