by David Todd | Jun 14, 2019 | Satellites, SpaceX, Technology
While Space X originally announced that all 60 Starlink communications satellites launched by a Falcon 9 on 24 May were in contact with ground control, according to analysis of orbital raising manoeuvres four satellites appeared to have been behaving differently from...
by David Todd | Jun 13, 2019 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
At 1417 GMT on 12 June, the Canadian three-satellite Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) – was launched by a Falcon 9v1.2r Block 5 into a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit of circa 604 x 584 km at an inclination of 97.4 degrees relative to the equator. The...
by David Todd | Jun 6, 2019 | China, Launches, Satellites
At 0406 GMT on 5 June 2019, a Long March 11 (CZ-11) rocket was launched from a barge stationed in the Yellow Sea. On board were seven satellites including the Jilin-1 03A Earth observation satellite with an optical resolution of 1.13 m. Launched into 543 x 528 km at...
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 31, 2019 | Satellites, Seradata News
As part of its follow-on to its original Global Xpress offering, the mobile communications services operator Inmarsat has ordered three new 3,000kg class satellites from Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS). The software defined high throughput Ka-band communications...
by David Todd | May 31, 2019 | Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
A Proton M Breeze M (Briz M) launch vehicle successfully launched the Yamal 601 communications satellite into orbit on its way to a final geostationary operating position. However, the final orbit raising did not go as planned after a shut down of the S-400 apogee...
