by David Todd | Jun 13, 2015 | China, History, Technology
In the same month that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and UK Prime Minister David Cameron attended the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, a bedrock of the democratic values and freedoms we know today, there was further evidence of...
by David Todd | Jun 12, 2015 | commercial launch services, Technology
Having already replaced Warren Boley Jr as its CEO in February, US rocket engine manufacturer, Aerojet Rocketdyne, has had a change of CEO again. This time it was, Scott Seymour, 64, who left at the beginning of June at short notice. He is replaced by Pratt and...
by David Todd | Jun 12, 2015 | Satellites, Space Insurance, Technology
At the Seradata Space Conference in London on 9 June 2015, this writer (David Todd) gave a brief presentation noting that launch reliability had remained relatively stable, and from Seradata’s serious anomaly dataset, that in orbit reliability was slowly improving –...
by David Todd | Jun 11, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata Announcements, Seradata News, Technology
The health and prospects of the Space Industry and Space Insurance market were the principal discussions at the inaugural Seradata Space Conference held in London on 9 June 2015. Cubesats dominate growth in numbers but there is little money in there Alan Perera-Webb,...
by David Todd | Jun 11, 2015 | Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
The Planetary Society’s crowd-funded LightSail-A solar sail test mission nearly came to a premature end twice before it even had a chance to unravel itself. Two days after its launch on 20 May on an Atlas V, along with the X-37B OTV Mission 4 space plane and...
by David Todd | Jun 8, 2015 | Satellites, SpaceX, Technology
Having previously announced a plan to launch thousands of small spacecraft into a low Earth orbit constellation, SpaceX has announced a plat to launch test satellites. The first two called, Microsats-1a and -1b, will be launched into a 626km near polar orbit in...
