by David Todd | Aug 16, 2019 | China, ESA, exploration, India, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
Every August Seradata does its usua; analysis of the “runners and riders” in “The Great Space Race” between the major space nations. Actually there are two races we make judgment on: the race to return humans to the Moon and the race to place...
by David Todd | Aug 14, 2019 | ESA, exploration, Russia, Satellites, Science
The complicated multi-parachute landing system for the European Space Agency ExoMars landing mission in 2020 is now under scrutiny after it failed a second test. The test on 5 August of the large 35 m diameter subsonic main parachute was deemed a failure as it...
by Matt Wilson | Aug 6, 2019 | Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
At 2156 GMT, 5 August 2019, a Russian Proton-M rocket, with Briz-M upper-stage, lifted-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying the fourth BLAGOVEST communications satellite into an eventual Geostationary orbit. The satellite also known as BLAGOVEST 14L,...
by Matt Wilson | Aug 1, 2019 | International Space Station, Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, space station
At 1211 GMT on 31 July 2019, a Russian Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifted-off carrying the PROGRESS MS-12 cargo freighter to a precise intercept with the International Space Station (ISS). The mission was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, and was timed down to...
by Matt Wilson | Jul 30, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
At 0556 GMT, on 30 July 2019, the MERIDIAN 8 military communications satellite was launched by a Russian Soyuz 2-1A rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The Soyuz rocket utilised a Fregat-M upper stage. The Meridian programme utilises the highly elliptical, Molniya...
by David Todd | Jul 22, 2019 | ESA, Launches, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
It might have been by design or not, but the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) found itself becoming part of the celebrations of the Apollo 11 landings 50 years ago. With its “unlucky number” 13 (space watchers will...
