by David Todd | Jun 14, 2019 | History, Seradata News, Space Arts
The world renowned British Broadcasting Corporation – more normally known as the BBC – has been licking its wounds after a series of disastrous decisions has caused it to lose a lot of its public support. The most recent of these was its support of...
by David Todd | Jun 13, 2019 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
At 1417 GMT on 12 June, the Canadian three-satellite Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) – was launched by a Falcon 9v1.2r Block 5 into a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit of circa 604 x 584 km at an inclination of 97.4 degrees relative to the equator. The...
by David Todd | Jun 12, 2019 | Personal spaceflight, Seradata News, Space tourism
While the International Space Station (ISS) had its usual comings and goings – mainly the unberthing and undocking of Dragon CRS-17 cargo craft which returned to Earth on 3 June, and the departure and safe burn up of Progress MS-10 cargo craft on 4 June – ...
by David Todd | Jun 6, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
While the Sutherland Space Port had already been chosen to make vertical launches to near polar low Earth orbits, there was also a need for a UK airport to act as a spaceport for horizontal aircraft carried launch vehicle types for orbital and suborbital missions. In...
by David Todd | Jun 4, 2019 | commercial launch services, exploration, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
Space News reports that on 31 May 2019, NASA awarded lunar landing contracts initially to three companies out of the nine finalists in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS). The three winners of the contracts worth a total of US$250 million will make one...
by David Todd | May 31, 2019 | Satellites, Seradata News
As part of its follow-on to its original Global Xpress offering, the mobile communications services operator Inmarsat has ordered three new 3,000kg class satellites from Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS). The software defined high throughput Ka-band communications...
