by David Todd | Sep 30, 2013 | China, Satellites, Science
The Chinese meteorological satellite Feng Yun 3C was successfully launched into a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit at 0307 GMT on 23 September 2013. The 2,200kg satellite was carried into orbit by a Long March 4C launch vehicle which lifted off from the Taiyuan...
by David Todd | Sep 30, 2013 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science
NASA has formally announced the forced retirement of Deep Impact spacecraft before its follow-on mission to rendezvous with the Comet Ison. In August, contact was lost with the spacecraft after it fell into a spin following a software upload. With not enough...
by David Todd | Sep 16, 2013 | commercial launch services, JAXA, Satellites, Science
The ground control-issue -delayed maiden flight of Japan’s new smaller launch vehicle, Epsilon, finally flew successfully at 0500 GMT on 14 September 2013 from the Uchinouora Space Center, Kagoshima, in Japan. The JAXA-designed three-stage solid-propellant...
by David Todd | Sep 13, 2013 | commercial launch services, Science, Seradata News
While they have interests in developing much small winged reusable launch vehicles via its ALASA (Airborne Launch Assist Space Access) programme, the US government organisation DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Project Agency), is reported by Space News to be about...
by David Todd | Sep 13, 2013 | exploration, NASA, Science, Seradata News
According to NASA, its Voyager 1 spacecraft has officially become the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun. As the result of a coronal mass ejection from the...
by David Todd | Sep 9, 2013 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The newsblog of Nature has broken the news that the EPOXI (Deep Impact) spacecraft is in a spin since August after a software uplink. Engineers are rushin to try and recover the spacecraft to a properly solar illuminated condition before the battery power runs out. ...
