by David Todd | Aug 30, 2016 | Satellites, Space Insurance, SpaceX
Commercial satellite operator SES has decided to risk flying its 5,300 kg SES-10 satellite to a geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on a “reused reusable” first stage Falcon 9V1.2 FT launch vehicle (Seradata annotates this as a Falcon 9V1.2 FT-RR). The...
by David Todd | Aug 22, 2016 | International Space Station, NASA, SpaceX
A spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) has successfully put into place a new IDA-2 docking adapter which will convert the old PMA-2 Space Shuttle adaptor to one that can receive the new Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon craft. The IDA-2 adapter...
by David Todd | Aug 16, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, SpaceX
At 0526 GMT on 14 August 2016, a Falcon 9V1.2R rocket successfully placed the Japanese communications satellite JCSAT-16 into a 36,183 x 151 km Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) at 20.9 degrees inclination relative to the equator (orbit via Jonathan McDowell from...
by David Todd | Aug 9, 2016 | ESA, exploration, NASA, SpaceX, Technology
Every year Seradata publishes its analysis of how well different nations are doing in the “great space race”. In this, we limit our analysis to manned spaceflight and to its two main exploratory targets: a return to the Moon and setting foot on Mars. On...
by David Todd | Aug 1, 2016 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Seradata News, SpaceX
NASA has ordered a second post-certification mission from commercial provider SpaceX in Hawthorne, California. The order represents the second manned, fully commercial NASA flight to the International Space Station (ISS) for SpaceX and its Dragon V2 capsule. Unmanned...
by David Todd | Jul 18, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz, SpaceX
The astronauts aboard International Space Station (ISS) awaited two deliveries after two launches within two days of each other in mid-July. The first of these launches was a Soyuz-U launch of a Progress MS-03 cargo craft at 2116 on 16 July. The launch took place from...
