by Matt Wilson | Jul 23, 2015 | NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA reports that its SMAP (Soil Moisture Active and Passive) spacecraft has a serious technical issue. On 7 July 2015, at about 2116 GMT, the main radar on its SMAP mission spacecraft halted its transmissions. All other components of the spacecraft continued to...
by David Todd | Jul 17, 2015 | exploration, NASA, Science, Seradata News
NASA has released a series of detailed images of the “dwarf planet” Pluto and its nearby moon, Charon, taken by the New Horizons spacecraft launched in January 2006. The first really good image of Pluto was taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on 13...
by David Todd | Jul 17, 2015 | ESA, International Space Station, Science, Technology
It is a sign that the UK space industry remains in very good health that the third UK Space Conference had attendance up for the third time, this time to 1,100 delegates. As a further indication of the UK’s growing importance in space, the enlarged Conference...
by David Todd | Jul 10, 2015 | NASA, Satellites, Science
At 1754GMT on 4 July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons mission fell into a safe mode after its primary computer crashed after an overload condition cutting communications with Earth. The overload was caused when a commands upload ahead of a Pluto flyby happened at the...
by David Todd | Jul 10, 2015 | Satellites, Science
The San Fransisco-based satellite firm, Spire Inc, which was originally created in 2012 as Nanosatisfi LLC, has a plan to build an atmospheric analysis constellation of 20 3U-cubesat spacecraft in conjunction with Clyde Space which is based in Glasgow. The...
by David Todd | Jun 23, 2015 | Satellites, Science
At 0121 GMT on 23 June 2015, a Vega rocket was launched by Arianespace, from its Kourou launch site in French Guiana. Aboard the launch vehicle was the Sentinel 2A (Optical) spacecraft of the European Space Agency’s Copernicus environmental programme. Built by...
