by David Todd | May 3, 2016 | ESA, exploration, NASA, Seradata News, SLS, SpaceX, Technology
With Elon Musk, of SpaceX, about to announce his master plan to send mankind to Mars (using a massive Super Heavy-lift Launch Vehicle) and with unmanned SpaceX Dragon 2 flights to the planet already in the pipeline, the question that many are asking...
by David Todd | Apr 28, 2016 | Satellites, Technology
The commercial communications satellite operator which is based in Canada, Telesat, has awarded two contracts for test communications satellites to operate in Ka-band. One of these orders goes to SSTL (Surrey Satellite Technology Limited), a UK-based subsidiary of...
by David Todd | Apr 28, 2016 | exploration, NASA, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced that it will be sending a “Red Dragon” unmanned spacecraft to Mars to make a landing on the planet. The craft, based on the Dragon 2 capsule with its vertical landing technology, is designed to test re-entry and...
by David Todd | Apr 26, 2016 | Military space, Suborbital, Technology
While the first flight of Iran’s new Simorgh flown on 19 April 2016 from the Semnan launch site appeared, at first sight, to be a failure, most space analysts believe that the flight was simply a successful suborbital launch test flight of rocket stages. Either way,...
by David Todd | Apr 25, 2016 | Technology
Aerojet Rocketdyne has been awarded a US$67 million contract by NASA to build a “high thrust” version with double the thrust of current Hall Effect electric thrusters that the firm has already developed. The Xenon-gas powered thruster will probably be used...
by David Todd | Apr 19, 2016 | Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
OneWeb LLC has formally confirmed that it will be building its 720 satellite constellation, in 18 planes plus another 170 spares at a new factory in Exploration Park, Florida. The spacecraft which are being designed in conjunction with Airbus Defence and Space, which...
