by David Todd | Jul 7, 2020 | International Space Station, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA has awarded the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 (TSIS-2) spacecraft construction contract to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group of San Diego, California. According to NASA, the award is a hybrid firm-fixed price, time and materials... 
by Matt Wilson | Jul 7, 2020 | Constellation, ESA, Finance, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Space politics
On 3 July 2020, the European Space Agency (ESA), on-behalf of the European Commission (representing the EU), issued development contracts for six missions that will compliment and enhance their Copernicus Earth observation programme. These initial contracts are valued... 
by David Todd | Jun 26, 2020 | Satellites, Science
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Ball Aerospace a contract worth US$96.9 million to build and operate the SWFO (Space Weather Follow-On) spacecraft to study the solar wind and provide early warning of Coronal Mass Ejection events on the... 
by David Todd | Apr 6, 2020 | ESA, exploration, Satellites, Science
On 24 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) put its long range space missions: the Cluster quartet, ExoMars TGO, Mars Express and Solar Orbiter, into Safe Mode “Hibernation” on 24 March to limit the number of personnel it would need at its operations centre. This was... by David Todd | Mar 31, 2020 | NASA, Satellites, Science
On 30 March, NASA announced that it will be funding the development of six 6U-cubesats as part of its Sun Radio Interferometry Experiment (SunRISE) mission. The mission worth US$62.6 million will be launched on its way to a near geostationary orbital position,... 
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2020 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, SpaceX
SpaceX is looking ahead of the Coronavirus outbreak as it lands yet another launch contract. The global communications satellite operator Intelsat has chosen to launch its Maxar (SSL)-built Intelsat-40e communications satellite via a Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The...
