by David Todd | Jan 14, 2019 | ESA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The construction of the FLEX – Fluorescence Explorer spacecraft to study “vegetation fluorescence” to determine global photosynthetic activity has been officially ordered. Having been originally selected in Novemer 2015 as the 8th ESA Earth Explorer...
by David Todd | Jan 14, 2019 | Russia, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
While it might be over two years past its “use-by” date – i.e. its five year minimum design life – Russia has keenly felt the loss of its in-orbit radio astronomy telescope Spektr-R (Radioastron). The spacecraft which was built by NPO...
by David Todd | Jan 3, 2019 | exploration, NASA, Science, Seradata News
The world was congratulating NASA after its New Horizons spacecraft successfully passed space object Ultima Thule on 1 January some four billion miles from Earth. The spacecraft then began slowly relaying images of the body located in the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto,...
by David Todd | Nov 27, 2018 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
At 2101 GMT on 27 November 2018, via UHF signals converted to X-band signals on two released Mars Cube One (MarCO A and B) data relay spacecraft and via the Deep Space Network on Earth, it was confirmed to NASA engineers, at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, that...
by David Todd | Nov 20, 2018 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
On 19 November 2018, a SAST-built and operated Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan launch site in china. The launch was aiming to place a Shiyan Weixing 6 satellite into a 500km Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit as well as some smaller satellites....
by David Todd | Nov 12, 2018 | commercial launch services, Military space, Science, Seradata News, Technology
This year’s Rispace – Reinventing Space – conference, which was held in London in November, had a blend of keynote speakers and technical presentations covering everything from satellite servicing to space debris. Unlike the overstuffed International...
