by David Todd | Mar 26, 2015 | Satellites, SpaceX, Technology
For those getting too excited, or in your spacecraft history-tracking correspondent’s case, too fretful, over the prospect of constellations of hundreds or even thousands of communications satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), a word, or rather a table, of...
by David Todd | Mar 17, 2015 | Satellites, Technology
Greg Wyler, founder of the start-up satellite operator, OneWeb (formerly known as WorldVu), which proposes to put up a large constellation of 650 communications satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, cut a charismatic figure as he presented his wares at...
by David Todd | Mar 16, 2015 | Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
Speaking at the Chief Technology Officers (CTO) roundtable at Satellite 2015 in Washington DC, Intelsat’s Executive Vice President and CTO Thierry Guillemin, outlined his firm’s plans for the future. Guilemin explained that his company’s new fleet of Epic...
by David Todd | Mar 12, 2015 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
After examination of all the debris from the launch failure of the Antares 130 rocket in October last year, a surprising find was made. The small Danish 2U cubesat GOMX-2, which is a de-orbit technology test satellite, had actually survived the Antares explosive...
by David Todd | Mar 3, 2015 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, SpaceX, Technology
At 0350 GMT on 2 March 2015, two commercial communications spacecraft, ABS-3A and Eutelsat 115West B (Satmex 7) were launched from Cape Canaveral by a Falcon 9V1.1. For performance maximisation reasons, the SpaceX rocket flew without its a reusable first stage and...
by David Todd | Feb 23, 2015 | Apollo, NASA, On a Lighter Note, Technology
NASA often likes to mention how its programmes have given the world new technologies – most noticeably in the fields of new materials and digital computing. Among the spin-offs it remains rather coy about is a hi-tech lubricant, developed for the Space,...
