Just One Month to go before the Seradata Space Conference
There is just a month to go to the Seradata Space Conference, Space Risks, Business and Insurance which takes place in London on 25 June 2019. We have put together a fantastic array of speakers who will inform, educate and entertain you. Our Headline Sessions include:...
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China suffers launch failure of Long March 4C rocket carrying Yaogan 33 radar sat
The Long March 4C launch of the Chinese Yaogan 33 satellite has ended in failure. The lift off was at 2255 GMT on 22 May 2019 from the Taiyuan launch centre in China. Xinhua, the Chinese news agency, has announced that the failure occurred to the third stage and...
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Risat 2B is launched by PSLV
A PSLV rocket lifted off at one second past midnight on the morning of 22 May 2019 from the Sriharikota launch site in India. The PSLV-C46 flght was carrying the Risat 2B radar satellite carrying an X-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar). The satellite has been...
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SEOSat/Ingenio to fly on Vega
Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA/Earth Observation Programs directorate) have signed launch services contract for the launch on a Vega rocket of SEOSat (Spanish Earth Observation SATellite) for Spain's Center for Development of Industrial Technology...
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ESAIL to fly on Vega as will StriX-Alpha later
Arianespace has announced that it has been selected by exactEarth to launch the 110 kg ESAIL satellite using a Vega as part of the launcher’s Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof of Concept (POC) flight from Kourou, French Guiana, in 2019. This final contract...
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On a Sadder Note: Formula 1 legend Niki Lauda passes away
Few would have counted on Austrian racing driver Niki Lauda making three score years and ten after his near fatal crash at the German Grand Prix in 1976. And yet three time Formula One (F1) motor racing champion Niki Lauda did make it to 70. However, in effect, he...
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China launches 45th Beidou navsat using Long March 3C
China has launched Beidou DW45 (aka Beidou 2-G8), its 45th satellite of its Beidou navigation satellite constellation. The launch took place from the Xichang launch site and used a Long March-3C/G2 rocket. The rocket lifted-off at 1548 GMT on 17 May 2019. The...
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Sky and Space Global orders another eight sats from GomSpace for inclined orbit
While Sky and Space Global (SAS) might be struggling to pay manufacturer GomSpace for its 200 satellite Pearls LEO mobile communications constellation, that has not stopped its ordering some more satellites to improve its global reach. It has placed an order for eight...
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Inmarsat shareholders approve takeover by Guernsey-based private consortium
On 10 May 2019, a majority of Inmarsat plc shareholders - 77 per cent - agreed to the purchase of "... the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital..." of the company by a private consortium, Connect Bidco Limited (Bidco), formed for this purpose....
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AEOLUS has laser woes
The European Space Agency's AEOLUS - Earth Explorer Atmospheric Dynamics Mission for wind profile monitoring is in trouble as its main wind measurement instrument using Lidar has a fault with its laser. The laser is now degrading at a rate of 1 milli-joule per week...
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