by Matt Wilson | Feb 17, 2020 | commercial launch services, Finance, Seradata News
Earlier in February 2020, American launch services provider Spaceflight Inc. – part of Spaceflight Industries Inc – announced that it would be sold to a pair of Japanese companies. The companies buying Spaceflight are; Mitsui & Co., Ltd, and Yamasa... 
by David Todd | Feb 14, 2020 | Apollo, Seradata News, Space politics
The UK government led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson was being reconstructed via a cabinet reshuffle in February. While many of the moves had been telegraphed previously – mainly to the Daily Telegraph (the main Conservative broadsheet newspaper) – other... 
by David Todd | Feb 10, 2020 | ESA, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter (SolO) mission has been sent on its way by an Atlas V 411 rocket launch. The launch took place at 0403 GMT from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The Centaur stage of the United Launch Alliance rocket put the SolO spacecraft... 
by David Todd | Feb 10, 2020 | JAXA, Military space, Seradata News
Japan successfully launched the IGS Optical 7A reconnaissance satellite on a H-IIA 202 (H2A 202) launch vehicle from Tanegashima Space Centre at 0134 GMT on 9 February. The launch had been previously delayed from 27 January due to Nitrogen gas leak in the ground... 
by Matt Wilson | Feb 7, 2020 | commercial launch services, Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
Launching at 2142 GMT, 6 February 2020, a Soyuz 2-1B rocket has carried 34 OneWeb satellites to LEO. The launch which, lifted-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, was part of the launch contract signed between OneWeb and Arianespace. This mission utilising... 
by David Todd | Feb 6, 2020 | International Space Station, Seradata News, Soyuz
Soyuz MS-13 undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Poisk module at 0550 GMT on 6 February 2019. On board were Cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov, commanding Soyuz MS-13 along with NASA’s Christina Koch and ESA’S Luca Parmitano. Soyuz MS-13 fired...
