by David Todd | Jul 11, 2014 | History, NASA, Science, Technology
An attempt to rescue a 36-year old explorer spacecraft, ISEE-3, by veteran space engineers has failed after the spacecraft’s thruster system was found to be faulty. NASA’s venerable International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3 aka ISEE 03) spacecraft has had...
by David Todd | Jul 9, 2014 | commercial launch services, Russia, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
At 1558 GMT on 8 July 2014 a Soyuz 2-1B/Fregat M launch vehicle successfully placed the 2.5 metric ton Meteor 3M-N2 Russian weather satellite into Sun-synchronous orbit. The launch took place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan....
by David Todd | Jul 2, 2014 | commercial launch services, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
Having lost its OCO (Orbiting Carbon Observatory) in a Taurus XL launch failure in 2009, and two years later losing its GLORY climatology mission on the same vehicle, NASA turned instead to the venerable and reliable Delta II rocket to launch its replacement for OCO. ...
by David Todd | Jun 30, 2014 | India, Satellites, Science, Technology
At 0422 GMT on 30 September a PSLV launch vehicle successfully launched the 714kg Spot 7 Earth remote sensing satellite from the Sriharikota launch site in India. Also aboard was the AISAT for the DLR which is carrying a ship tracking payload, a pair of CAN-X...
by David Todd | Jun 23, 2014 | International Space Station, Russia, Science, Seradata News, space station
On 19 June 2014, two cosmonauts, Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, ventured out of the International Space Station and performed a spacewalk lasting over seven hours. After depressurisation, the spacewalkers left the airlock at 1410 GMT to begin a work schedule...
by David Todd | May 27, 2014 | JAXA, Satellites, Science
The Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully launched its ALOS-2 (Advanced Land Observing Satellite) which is also known as DAICHI-2. The launch of the Earth resources and disaster monitoring spacecraft took place from the Tanegashima launch...
