by David Todd | Feb 18, 2019 | NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA has selected the SPHEREx astronomy mission to progress to operational status as a NASA Medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) type mission. SPHEREx – Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Re-ionization and Ices Explorer – will conduct...
by David Todd | Jan 14, 2019 | ESA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The construction of the FLEX – the Fluorescence Explorer spacecraft which is to study “vegetation fluorescence” to determine global photosynthetic activity – has been officially ordered. Having been originally selected in Novemer 2015 as the...
by David Todd | Jan 14, 2019 | Russia, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
While it might be more than 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, built by NPO Lavotchkin to detect gamma and X-ray...
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....
