by David Todd | Apr 16, 2019 | exploration, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Technology
While Hollywood has long flagged the dangers of asteroid and comet impact via its science fictional disaster movies Meteor (1979), Deep Impact (1998) and Armageddon (1998), real life space seemed to have no solution to the threat. Now NASA, in conjunction with John...
by David Todd | Apr 16, 2019 | Seradata News
The German-based launch arranger Exolaunch (formerly known as ECM Space) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with start-up launch provider Virgin Orbit to launch its clients’ satellites on Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne from 2020 onwards. Virgin Orbit plans to...
by David Todd | Apr 12, 2019 | commercial launch services, Russia, Seradata News
While Glavkosmos has a share in GK Launch Services, the marketing arm for Soyuz rockets, it will now get another body under its umbrella. By order of Roscosmos, Glavkosmos will now take over control of International Launch Services (ILS), the marketer of the Proton...
by David Todd | Apr 12, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Arabsat 6A, a 6,460kg communications satellite built by Lockeed Martin, was sent safely on its way by a Falcon Heavy launch via its injection to its 89,808 x 321km super-synchronous transfer orbit. The launch took place from the Kennedy Space Centre launch site, near...
by David Todd | Apr 12, 2019 | exploration, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Technology
The Israeli privately-financed SpaceIL Beresheet (B’reshit) unmanned lunar landing probe has crashed on the Moon as the result of a complication which caused its landing engine to be cut off at a key moment. Having hitched a paid-for ride on a Falcon 9 launch on...
by David Todd | Apr 11, 2019 | Seradata News
While Einstein had predicted them via Einstein’s Theory of Relativity although doubting that they actually existed, and while astronomers later proved them via the rotational movements of orbiting stars, and via the detection of gravitational waves, a Black Hole...
