by Matt Wilson | Aug 7, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Lifting-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 2323 GMT, on 6 August 2019, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle carried the AMOS-17 communications satellite into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). AMOS-17 is an multi-band satellite for Israeli FSS operator Space...
by Matt Wilson | Jul 26, 2019 | International Space Station, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Following a week of delays, the SpaceX Dragon CRS-18 ISS resupply mission lifted-off from Cape Canaveral, United States of America, at 25 July, at 2202 GMT, utilising the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The mission is carrying 1,691 kg of supplies and equipment to the...
by David Todd | Jul 17, 2019 | NASA, SpaceX
The post-flight ground test destruction of the previously flown (in uncrewed condition) Crew Dragon DM-1 capsule, during a SuperDraco thruster engine firing test on 20 April 2019, was caused by a leak of nitrogen tetroxide, a preliminary investigation by SpaceX...
by David Todd | Jul 15, 2019 | Apollo, Blue Origin, Commercial human spaceflight, NASA, Seradata News, Space Insurance, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic
As the 50th celebration of the Apollo 11 astronaut moon landing gets underway, some less well-known aspects of the mission have been revealed. One was that during the late 1950s the UK briefly considered starting a project to mount its own Apollo-11-style human lunar...
by David Todd | Jul 4, 2019 | Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a two-satellite construction order as part of the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM).by Norway’s state-run firm Space Norway which is offering communications payloads on board the satellites for Norwegian Ministry of...
by David Todd | Jun 27, 2019 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Using the combined 5.1 million lbf thrust of 27 Merlin 1D engines, the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre near Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 25 June. It was a big success for its clients but had mixed results for SpaceX in its...
