by David Todd | Oct 17, 2013 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Technology
Europe is to get its own “all electric” satellite bus. Under a public-private partnership agreement signed on 15 October between the satellite operatior, SES and the European Space Agency (ESA) the ELECTRA programme plans to build a...
by David Todd | Oct 17, 2013 | SpaceX, Technology
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZDkItO-0a4[/youtube] SpaceX has released impressive footage of its latest Grasshopper rocket vertical lift off and landing test with the images taken from hovering “hexacopter” UAV. The test took place on 7 October...
by David Todd | Oct 9, 2013 | Apollo, China, exploration, History, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Science, Seradata News, Technology
It is at this time of year (well actually a little later than usual) when the Flightglobal/Ascend space team considers who is in the lead in the race to return astronauts to the Moon. Last year, we did an analysis of what a nation needed to put its astronauts on the...
by David Todd | Oct 9, 2013 | Seradata News, Technology
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has announced another successful test of the ship launched Standard Missile SM-3 anti-ballistic missile system. The FTM-22 flight test launch at 0533 GMT on 4 October used the latest Block 1B version of the SM-3 missile which can...
by David Todd | Oct 8, 2013 | China, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Science, SLS, Technology
The International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is held every year in a different world city. As China has become the “third force” in manned spaceflight, it was logical and correct that Beijing, China’s capital city, should be selected as the venue...
by David Todd | Sep 30, 2013 | commercial launch services, NASA, SpaceX, Technology
Space Exploration Technologies (Space X) had a successful launch of its newest version of its Falcon 9 rocket series: the Falcon 9 V1.1. The flight which took place from the Vandenberg launch site in California at 1600 GMT on 29 September successfully placed the...
