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...
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...
