by David Todd | Feb 18, 2019 | exploration, Seradata News
The Mars One plan to base a reality TV show on the surface of Mars in 2024 and its competition to send 24 participants there has, of course, ended in tears. To no-one’s surprise, except perhaps its instigators Bas Lansdorp and Arno Wielders, the project came to...
by David Todd | Feb 18, 2019 | NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA has selected the SPHEREx astronomy mission to progress to operational status as a NASA Medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) type mission. SPHEREx – Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Re-ionization and Ices Explorer – will conduct...
by Matt Wilson | Feb 13, 2019 | Finance, Satellites, Seradata News
In a statement released on 12 February 2019, Red Eléctrica Corporación, S.A. (REC) announced that they had reached a deal with current Hispasat majority shareholder Abertis Infraestructuras, S.A. (Abertis) to purchase their 89.68 per cent stake for EUR€949m...
by David Todd | Feb 8, 2019 | Satellites, Seradata News
While Viasat 3-1 (Viasat-3 Americas) and Viasat 3-2 Viasat-3 EMEA High Throughput Satellites (HTS) have their construction well underway and are planned for launches in 2021, there was a missing third member of the GEO triumvirate: Viasat 3-3 (Viasat-3 Asia-Pacific). ...
by David Todd | Feb 8, 2019 | Blue Origin, Seradata News
It is not just SpaceX founder Elon Musk who has trouble with gossip about his love life. Jeff Bezos, the Amazon multi-billionaire and founder of SpaceX’s start-up launch providing competitor, Blue Origin, has found himself mired in gossip column allegations and...
by David Todd | Feb 8, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News
At a press conference marking the opening of its new new headquarters in Forres in Scotland, start-up launch UK-based launch provider Orbex both revealed an engineering prototype its new upper stage of its new two-stage Prime launch vehicle and announced that small...
