by David Todd | Jul 9, 2019 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science
NASA has formally awarded a contract for the launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission. This will take place on a Falcon 9 rocket flying from the Kennedy Space Centre on April 2021. The launch will use a preflown reusable first stage. The...
by David Todd | Jul 5, 2019 | Launches, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
A Soyuz 2-1B with Fregat M upper stage successfully launched at 0541 GMT on 5 July 2019 from Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s far East. The primary payload is the Russian Meteor M 2-2 meteorological satellite, however, the launcher also carried a further 32 small...
by David Todd | Jul 4, 2019 | Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a two-satellite construction order as part of the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM).by Norway’s state-run firm Space Norway which is offering communications payloads on board the satellites for Norwegian Ministry of...
by David Todd | Jul 2, 2019 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
At 0430 GMT a 29 June a Rocket Lab Electron rocket (Electron KS) was launched from the Mahia Peninsula. Aboard were seven spacecraft which were put into a circa 460 x 452 km low Earth orbit inclined at 45 degrees relative to the Earth equator. The seventh flight of...
by David Todd | Jul 2, 2019 | Satellites, Seradata News
Via the Canadian Space Agency, the government of Canada, has ordered a new communications research satellite from the US firm Honeywell. The satellite is called QEYSsat – Quantum EncryYption and Science Satellite. As its name suggests, it will be used to test...
by David Todd | Jul 1, 2019 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News
On 27 May 2019, NASA selected the Dragonfly eight-rotor drone craft as a New Horizons mission to land on and make flights between points on Saturn’s moon Titan. The mission is due to be launched in 2026, and, will arrive at Titan eight years later after making...
