by David Todd | Jan 23, 2020 | Reliability Info, Satellites, Seradata News
The Boeing-built Spaceway 1 spacecraft suffered an anomaly during December 2019 which caused a “significant and irreversible” thermal damage to its batteries. The spacecraft’s owner DirecTV has informed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...
by David Todd | Jan 23, 2020 | Launches, Military space, Seradata News, Technology
While Boeing’s engineering credibility was already under fire following the air accidents of the Boeing 737 Max airliner, the failure of the first unmanned test flight of its commercial crew CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to reach the International Space Station,...
by David Todd | Jan 22, 2020 | On a Lighter Note, On a Sadder Note, Seradata News
The comedy actor/director/writer Terry Jones has died at the age of 77 after suffering from dementia. He was famously one of the Monty Python comedy team which gave rise to a seminal comedy television series and film series. Having co-directed the earlier Python...
by David Todd | Jan 21, 2020 | Reliability Info, Satellites, Seradata News, Space Insurance
It has been reported that customers on the Thaicom 5 communications satellite have been moved to other satellites following a telemetry issue that is preventing control of the spacecraft. The nearly 14-year-old spacecraft was coming to the end of its design life. ...
by David Todd | Jan 21, 2020 | commercial launch services, Launches, Military space, Seradata News
The idea of “rapid launch” has been much mooted in the past, but is now finally becoming a reality. The New Zealand based rocket provider Rocket Lab has announced that the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has ordered an Electron launch for its...
by David Todd | Jan 20, 2020 | Military space, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News
While SpaceX is working to make its satellites less visible in space lest they upset Earth’s astronomers, so the new US Space Force has been showing of its own camouflaged uniform…to the derision of comnentators. For their new military uniform – at...
