by David Todd | Oct 5, 2016 | ESA, History, India, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Technology
IAC 2016 Guadalaraja: Mars missions and new rockets feature… and so does the rain The annual meeting of the World’s space agencies, engineers and scientists at the 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) took place in Guadalajara, Mexico, during late September...
by David Todd | Oct 4, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News, Technology
Firefly Space Systems, the US-based start-up in small launch vehicles, has laid off all its staff after a funding crisis. Rumours of the firm’s problems had been circulating at the International Astronautical Congress 2016 (IAC 2016) in Guadalajara, Mexico, after its...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 30, 2016 | ESA, exploration, Satellites, Science, Technology
On 30 September 2016, at 1119 GMT the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, announced that the Rosseta probe had completed its de-orbit manoeuvre to land/crash on to the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, sending its last telemetry packet at...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 28, 2016 | Commercial human spaceflight, exploration, Personal spaceflight, SpaceX, Technology, test
On 23 September, SpaceX released a statement explaining the progress they had made in the investigation into the cause of the Falcon 9 “anomaly” in the run-up to the AMOS-6 mission. It stated that “…the Accident Investigation Team (AIT),...
by David Todd | Sep 27, 2016 | exploration, NASA, SpaceX, Technology
At the International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2016) in Guadalajara, Mexico, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and Chief Technical Officer of the launch provider and manufacturer SpaceX, revealed his plan to put mankind onto the planet Mars, in effect becoming THE...
by David Todd | Sep 13, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News, Technology
Jeff Bezos, head of Amazon and Blue Origin rocket entrepreneur, has released an image showing how his new LOx/Methane powered New Glenn rocket series stacks up in its two- and three- stage versions. And boy, are they big. The rocket series is named in honour of John...
