by Matt Wilson | Jun 20, 2016 | Blue Origin, Science, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology, test
Blue Origin launched its New Shepard booster (the same vehicle) for the fourth consecutive time at 1435 GMT on 19 June 2016,. The suborbital booster achieved a peak altitude of 101 km before successfully landing back on the launch-pad some 8 minutes after lift off. ...
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 | May 27, 2016 | International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, Technology
Bigelow Aerospace and NASA engineers had to initially suspended an attempt to inflate the experimental inflatable module attached to the International Space Station after it failed to inflate properly. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) inflation had been...
by David Todd | May 23, 2016 | India, Seradata News, Space Shuttle, Suborbital, Technology
India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has made a test flight of a new design for winged reusable space travel. The endo-atmospheric suborbital test flight, dubbed HEX-1, of the Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) was...
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 5, 2016 | Technology
Airbus Defence and Space is to lead the TeSeR (Technology for Self-Removal of Spacecraft) project to remove space debris from orbit. The project is to design a module that will act as as a removal back-up in the case of a loss of control over a spacecraft. Airbus...
