by David Todd | Jun 29, 2020 | Military space, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
The UK Government is reportedly providing £500 million as part of one of the bids for the partially completed OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) communications satellite constellation, which is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. With a UK version of the EU’s Galileo... 
by Matt Wilson | Jun 12, 2020 | Finance, Seradata News, Technology
Astroscale Holdings, Japan, announced on 3 June 2020, that their American subsidiary, Astroscale US Inc., had entered into an agreement to purchase Israeli company Effective Space. Astroscale is a newspace company formed in 2013, to develop orbital debris mitigation... 
by David Todd | May 26, 2020 | commercial launch services, Launches, Technology
Virgin Orbit suffered a failure in its attempt to launch the airdropped LauncherOne small launch vehicle on its maiden flight. After a one-day delay due to a sensor issue, Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl Boeing 747 carrier aircraft lifted off from Mojave Air and... 
by David Todd | May 5, 2020 | China, Launches, Technology
China successfully launched its Next Generation Crew Spacecraft – Test Ship (XZF-SC Xinyidai Zairen Feichuan – Shiyan Chuan) on three-day test mission in unmanned condition on a Long March 5B from the Wenchang Sat Launch Centre, Hainan Island, at 1000 GMT on 5 May.... 
by David Todd | May 1, 2020 | Apollo, exploration, NASA, Seradata News, Technology
Having previously eschewed using the Lunar Gateway space station as a half-way stop for its human carrying landing system, NASA has selected three teams to build human landers/ascent craft to land astronauts on the Moon as part of the Artemis programme. The target... 
by David Todd | Mar 23, 2020 | Reliability Info, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
While it was the mortality of humans was exercising the minds of most on Earth, it became apparent that something was badly wrong with the 11-year-old Venesat-1 (Simon Bolivar) Venezuelan communications satellite. It was summarily moved to a graveyard orbit in...
