by David Todd | Dec 7, 2018 | commercial launch services, Launches, NASA, Seradata News, SpaceX
While its reusable operations have, for the most part, gone well to date, every now and again SpaceX suffers a landing failure which makes the clockwork operation wobble. Having got to three uses with a single stage on the multiple satellite Vandenberg launch for...
by Matt Wilson | Dec 5, 2018 | commercial launch services, History, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
After a series of delays due to various reasons from National holidays to high winds, the Sun-Synch Express mission for Spaceflight Industries was launched by an Space X Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket at 1834 GMT, 3 December 2018. The launch from the western SpaceX launch...
by Matt Wilson | Nov 28, 2018 | Constellation, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
During November, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the applications of four large-scale communications satellite constellations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which will total more than 8,000 satellites if fully implemented. Of these, the SpaceX...
by David Todd | Nov 26, 2018 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, NASA, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, SpaceX
We joked a month or two ago that some would be wondering what Elon Musk had been smoking when they found out that the latest BFS (now called Starship) design had been deliberately changed to make it look more like Tintin’s rocket ship. Now NASA is apparently doing the...
by David Todd | Nov 19, 2018 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
The launch of a Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 rocket operated by SpaceX lifted off from SpaceX’s launch pad 39A (the former Space Shuttle pad) at the Kennedy Space Center launch site, near Cape Canaveral in Florida. It injected the Es’Hail2 communications...
by David Todd | Nov 9, 2018 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
Elon Musk has announced via Twitter that his SpaceX rocket firm will fly a re-entry test vehicle as part of its BFR/BFS research. This project aims to produce an all-reusable rocket system capable of return not only from low Earth orbit (LEO), but also from the Moon...
