by Mark Williamson | Jul 28, 2021 | Blue Origin, Commercial human spaceflight, exploration, Finance, NASA, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
Blue Origin CEO and recent addition to the ranks of ‘astronaut’, Jeff Bezos, has offered to restore competition to NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) programme in an open letter to the NASA Administrator. In return for an HLS contract, Bezos has offered to cover the...
by Matt Wilson | Jul 20, 2021 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
Lifting-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China, a Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket has carried four satellites in to LEO. The mission took place at 0019 GMT on 19 July. The primary payloads carried were the three Yaogan 30 spacecraft – the tenth such...
by Matt Wilson | Jul 19, 2021 | China, Military space, Seradata News, Suborbital, Technology
China reportedly launched and landed a “reusable suborbital carrier” vehicle during 16 July (local time), according to its state media company, Xinhua. Few details about the vehicle are widely known however, this mission apparently entailed a...
by Mark Williamson | Jul 16, 2021 | Finance, Seradata News, Space politics, Technology
Once a promising start-up in the fields of space transportation and in-orbit servicing, Momentus Space has suffered a largely self-inflicted ‘resistance to progress’ in the past few months. However, the announcement on 13 July that the US Securities and Exchange...
by Matt Wilson | Jun 8, 2021 | Finance, Seradata News, Technology
Prospective American launch provider Relativity Space has announced that it has completed a Series E funding round raising US$650 million. This follows its previous sizeable Series D funding round which raised US$500 million in November last year. The latest round was...
by Matt Wilson | May 26, 2021 | Finance, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
CesiumAstro announced on 25 May that it would be launching its first mission, dubbed “Cesium Mission 1”, to LEO alongside the NASA Landsat 9 satellite in September this year. Cesium Mission 1 will consist of two 6U-CubeSats, built in-house, and are...
