by Matt Wilson | Jul 29, 2019 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
An unexpected Chinese satellite launch took place from Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 0357 GMT, 26 July 2019. This mission saw a CALT (Chinese Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology) Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket orbit a triplet of YAOGAN 30-05 Earth Observation...
by David Todd | Jul 3, 2019 | NASA, Orion, Technology, test
While NASA left off the parachutes for schedule reasons (the parachute system has already been tested) the Orion crew module capsule (in unmanned condition) had its tractor rocket tower escape system fitted above it, successfully fired in a test on 2 July 2019 to...
by David Todd | Jun 28, 2019 | Blue Origin, commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata Announcements, Seradata News, Technology
While this writer was both an organiser and participant at the Seradata Space Conference in London in June, he can just about stay neutral enough to write about the event. Following a slightly doom-laden introduction about the prospects for space insurance, by...
by David Todd | Jun 19, 2019 | History, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
Now that Boeing faces legal action over its design process and over its failure to ground the faulty Boeing 737 Max aircraft, some wonder why it was ever designed like that in the first place. Nevertheless, there will always be a tension between what is safe and what...
by David Todd | Jun 14, 2019 | Satellites, SpaceX, Technology
While Space X originally announced that all 60 Starlink communications satellites launched by a Falcon 9 on 24 May were in contact with ground control and that all had deployed their solar arrays and their electric propulsion systems were operational. However, on 28...
by David Todd | May 24, 2019 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
SpaceX has launched the first 60 satellites in its Starlink low Earth orbit constellation of communications satellites aimed at providing high bandwidth with low latency to mobile users on Earth. The launch, which had been delayed by over a week by upper level winds...
