by David Todd | Apr 16, 2019 | exploration, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Technology
While Hollywood has long flagged the dangers of asteroid and comet impact via its science fictional disaster movies Meteor (1979), Deep Impact (1998) and Armageddon (1998), real life space seemed to have no solution to the threat. Now NASA, in conjunction with John...
by David Todd | Apr 12, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Arabsat 6A, a 6,460kg communications satellite built by Lockeed Martin, was sent safely on its way by a Falcon Heavy launch via its injection to its 89,808 x 321km super-synchronous transfer orbit. The launch took place from the Kennedy Space Centre launch site, near...
by David Todd | Apr 12, 2019 | exploration, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Technology
The Israeli privately-financed SpaceIL Beresheet (B’reshit) unmanned lunar landing probe has crashed on the Moon as the result of a complication which caused its landing engine to be cut off at a key moment. Having hitched a paid-for ride on a Falcon 9 launch on...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Relativity Space Inc’s yet to fly the 3D printing technology launch vehicle Terran-1 has been awarded its first launch booking for multiple launches for the Canadian operator Telesat’s LEO broadband constellation. Terran 1 is designed to be built in only...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2019 | commercial launch services, Satellites
While start-up satellite firm Sky and Space Global has a formal launch contract with Virgin Orbit and an exploratory Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) contracts with China’s CGWIC, it has just signed a new MoU with Arianespace to launch 88 satellites on...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2019 | Satellites, Seradata News
Intelsat 29e has suffered an explosive event on 7 April 2019 – the cause is as yet unknown/undisclosed – resulting in space debris being tracked coming off of the spacecraft by ExoAnalytics’ Earthbound telescopes along with a serious fuel leak. At...
