by David Todd | Oct 30, 2015 | Technology
At the well attended 4th UK Space Propulsion Workshop held under the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) at the Imperial War Museum in London in October, the subject of whether the UK should have a small launch vehicle and a UK spaceport, came up. It was accepted by the...
by David Todd | Oct 28, 2015 | Satellites, Technology
Inmarsat has signed a contract to provide high-speed inflight connectivity services for passengers onboard Lufthansa’s European continental fleet. Under the agreement, Inmarsat will equip more than 150 Lufthansa airlines aircraft with Global Xpress (GX), with...
by David Todd | Oct 7, 2015 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
During September 2015, after a review over their enforceability by the US Patent and Trademark office, the Blue Origin company decided to withdraw 13 of the 15 patent claims it had made against SpaceX over the latter’s subsequent use of a vertically landing...
by David Todd | Oct 7, 2015 | Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
Some of the small cubesat craft that were carried to the International Space Station on 24 August 2015 by the HTV-5 cargo craft have now been released into orbit. First to be ejected from the JEM module airlock were the GOMX-3 and AAUSAT 5 tracking communications...
by David Todd | Sep 24, 2015 | Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
While Taiwan’s 2m ground resolution Formosat 5 is due for its launch in early 2016 on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle, Taiwan’s National Space Programme Office has given out some details of its future Earth observation spacecraft. Under current plans, Taiwan...
by David Todd | Sep 24, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, Technology
Following its rejection of a US$2 billion bid by Aerojet Rocketdyne, United Launch Alliance has announced that its launch vehicles will use solid rocket boosters supplied by Orbital ATK instead of Aerojet Rocketdyne. The announcement is especially significant as it...
