by David Todd | Jul 18, 2016 | History, NASA, SpaceX
Boris Johnson, the Brexit-campaigning brother of the now reappointed minister in charge of space, Jo Johnson, has been given the high-visibility role of UK Foreign Secretary in Theresa May’s new government. Of course, it has to be noted that Boris was born “with a...
by David Todd | Jun 16, 2016 | Launches, Satellites, SpaceX, Technology
At 1429 GMT on 15 June 2016 a Falcon 9 v1.1R rocket launched two Boeing 720SP satellites, Eutelsat 117 West B and ABS 2A, into a “super-synchronous” transfer orbit of 62,759 x 400 km, ready for their orbit-raising journey to Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO). The two...
by David Todd | Jun 1, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, SpaceX
At 2139 GMT on 27 May 2016, a Falcon 9FT-R rocket successfully lifted off from the Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida. On board was the commercial communications satellite Thaicom 8. The spacecraft was successfully launched into an energy...
by David Todd | May 12, 2016 | Satellites, SpaceX
The SpaceX Dragon CRS-8 (Dragon CRS1-08) unmanned cargo spacecraft that was being flown on behalf of NASA by SpaceX was gingerly unberthed from the Harmony port of the International Space Station (ISS) using the Canadarm robot arm on 11 May 2016. Under the control...
by David Todd | May 6, 2016 | commercial launch services, Military space, Satellites, SpaceX, Technology
In what was the second successful down-range, drone barge-landing of the type, after a one day delay due to storms, a Falcon 9FT-R first stage successfully safely touched down after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, nearly nine minutes after its 0521 GMT launch...
by David Todd | May 3, 2016 | ESA, exploration, NASA, Seradata News, SLS, SpaceX, Technology
With Elon Musk, of SpaceX, about to announce his master plan to send mankind to Mars (using a massive Super Heavy-lift Launch Vehicle) and with unmanned SpaceX Dragon 2 flights to the planet already in the pipeline, the question that many are asking...
