by David Todd | Feb 18, 2019 | NASA, Satellites, SpaceX, Technology
In what is becoming a habit, NASA, has been forced to admit that its plan to launch crew aboard commercial launches of commercial spacecraft has been delayed again. Specifially, the uncrewed test launches of both SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, and the Boeing CST-100...
by David Todd | Feb 18, 2019 | NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA has selected the SPHEREx astronomy mission to progress to operational status as a NASA Medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) type mission. SPHEREx – Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Re-ionization and Ices Explorer – will conduct...
by Matt Wilson | Feb 13, 2019 | Finance, Satellites, Seradata News
In a statement released on 12 February 2019, Red Eléctrica Corporación, S.A. (REC) announced that they had reached a deal with current Hispasat majority shareholder Abertis Infraestructuras, S.A. (Abertis) to purchase their 89.68 per cent stake for EUR€949m...
by David Todd | Feb 12, 2019 | International Space Station, NASA, Satellites
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-10 (John Young) unmanned cargo spacecraft, whose operation has been commission by NASA, having earlier been “unberthed” from the Unity module using the International Space Station’s robot arm, it was released at 1616...
by David Todd | Feb 8, 2019 | Satellites, Seradata News
While Viasat 3-1 (Viasat-3 Americas) and Viasat 3-2 Viasat-3 EMEA High Throughput Satellites (HTS) have their construction well underway and are planned for launches in 2021, there was a missing third member of the GEO triumvirate: Viasat 3-3 (Viasat-3 Asia-Pacific). ...
by David Todd | Feb 7, 2019 | Launches, Satellites
Iran has suffered its second orbital launch failure of the year. Having already suffered a suspected third stage ignition failure of its larger Simorgh three-stage launch vehicle, losing the Amir Kabir 1 (Payam) satellite in January, now its smaller Safir launch...
