by David Todd | Aug 4, 2020 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Seradata News, SpaceX
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, who were launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour for a near 64 day say have successfully returned to Earth via a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, just south of Pensacola,...
by David Todd | Apr 20, 2020 | Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Seradata News, SpaceX
NASA has formally announced, as expected, that a crew of two astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, will fly on a SpaceX operated Crew Dragon spacecraft launched by a Falcon 9 rocket on 27 May. In effect, this means that the USA is back in the human orbital launch...
by Matt Wilson | Mar 10, 2020 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
The much proclaimed Monday keynote at SATELLITE 2020, featured SpaceX founder Elon Musk. He spoke about the future of his projects at SpaceX, namely the Starlink constellation, and the in-development Starship, super-heavy, manned, launch vehicle. When speaking about...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 25, 2019 | History, International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Personal spaceflight, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, space station
At 1357 GMT on 25 September, a Soyuz-FG rocket lifted off from Launch Site No. 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying the Soyuz MS-15 crew mission to the International Space Station (ISS). This launch marked the end of some eras – and the beginning of...
by David Todd | Jun 12, 2019 | Personal spaceflight, Seradata News, Space tourism
While the International Space Station (ISS) had its usual comings and goings – mainly the unberthing and undocking of the Dragon CRS-17 cargo craft which returned to Earth on 3 June, and the departure and safe burn-up of the Progress MS-10 cargo craft on 4 June – its...
by David Todd | Feb 26, 2019 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Suborbital, Virgin Galactic
At 1607 GMT on 15 February a Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Unity rocketplaine was air-dropped from its carrier aircraft Over the Mojave air strip in California, at. Aboard was David Mackay – the main test pilot and his co-pilot Mike “Sooch” Masucci (Co-Pilot). ...
