by Matt Wilson | Aug 5, 2020 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News, Space politics
SES, the Europe-based operator of a global satellite fleet, has selected two American launch companies to fly its C-band replacement satellites. The contracts were announced on 5 August 2020, and outline a single dual-payload launch for United Launch Alliance (ULA)... 
by Matt Wilson | Jul 7, 2020 | Constellation, ESA, Finance, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Space politics
On 3 July 2020, the European Space Agency (ESA), on-behalf of the European Commission, issued development contracts for six missions that will compliment and enhance the Copernicus Earth observation programme. These initial contracts, valued at EUR€2.55 billion... 
by David Todd | Mar 30, 2020 | Space Arts, Space politics
With the Coronavirus Covid-19 now paralysing the world – and, by the way, parts of its space industry – let us hope that some good comes of all of this and that governments can learn from it. In fact, they would have been wiser to have learned from two... 
by David Todd | Mar 17, 2020 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, Space Insurance, Space politics
Whether you call it coronavirus or COVID-19 you cannot avoid this “Elephant in the Room”, which is affecting much of industry and commerce, the world’s health systems and even basic human relationships. And space has not been insulated from the virus. Despite a tardy... 
by David Todd | Feb 14, 2020 | Apollo, Seradata News, Space politics
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson reshuffled his Cabinet in February. While many of the moves had been telegraphed – mainly to the Daily Telegraph (the Conservative-leaning broadsheet newspaper) – other newspapers noted that Johnson (and his adviser Dominic Cummings)... 
by David Todd | Jan 27, 2020 | Satellites, Seradata News, Space politics
The UK government has decided to allow the Chinese quasi state-run Huawei firm to build the planned 5G telecommunications infrastructure in the United Kingdom. USA and the other three countries of the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance (Canada, Australia,...
