by David Todd | Oct 20, 2014 | NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The Sunjammer solar sail mission has effectively been cancelled after NASA withdrew its funding. The Kapton 38 x 38m solar sail was being built under NASA Space Technology Programme (STP). by L’Garde of Tustin, California. It had been due to be launched...
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | commercial launch services, JAXA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The Japanese meteorological satellite, Himawari 8, as successfully launched by a H-IIA (H-2A202) launch vehicle from the Tanegashima launch site in Japan at 0516 GMT on 7 October.2014. The spacecraft which was built for JAXA by the Mitsubishi Electric Corp (MELCO),...
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | Satellites, Science, Seradata News
Sierra Nevada Corp (SNC) has announced on 14 October 2014 that, after a competition, its Space Systems Division in Louisville, Colorada, USA has been awarded a contract to build a new technology demonstration satellite for the US Department of Defense Space Test...
by David Todd | Sep 24, 2014 | exploration, India, Satellites, Science
India became only the fourth “nation” (after Soviet Union/Russia, USA and Japan) to send a probe to Mars using its own rocket, and the first to achieve this feat successfully on the first attempt. After making a 24 minute engine firing to brake its...
by David Todd | Sep 23, 2014 | On a Lighter Note, Science
With the West African outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus threatening to become an international epidemic, making the devastating medieval “Black Death” outbreak look like a “walk in the park”, British terrestrial television viewers may have...
by David Todd | Sep 22, 2014 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Science, Seradata News, SpaceX
The fourth launch in its NASA resupply contract for the International Space Station was successfully carried out by Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) using its Dragon CRS-4 spacecraft launched by its Falcon 9V1.1 rocket. The launch took place at 0552 GMT...
