by David Todd | Nov 9, 2018 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
Elon Musk has announced via Twitter that his SpaceX rocket firm will fly a re-entry test vehicle as part of its BFR/BFS research. This project aims to produce an all-reusable rocket system capable of return not only from low Earth orbit (LEO), but also from the Moon...
by David Todd | May 23, 2018 | NASA, On a Lighter Note
NASA’s fine photographer Bill Ingalls has realised that he might have overdone it when he got in a little too close to get one of his trademark close-ups of the Falcon 9 Vandenberg launch, which was carrying the GRACE Follow-on (GRACE FO) two-satellite mission and the...
by David Todd | May 23, 2018 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
A pair of NASA/DLR scientific spacecraft designed to study the Earth’s water cycle and how mass is distributed around the planet’s surface and subsurface, the Gravity-Recovery And Climate Experiment – Follow On (GRACE Follow On) satellites, were...
by David Todd | Mar 13, 2018 | Launches, Seradata News, SpaceX
NASA’s independent report into the Falcon 9 launch failure, which lost Dragon CRS-7 and eight small Flock/Dove satellites on 28 June 2015, has finally been released. It specifically criticises a SpaceX design error – and by implication its chief designer: Elon Musk....
by David Todd | Feb 22, 2018 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
A much-delayed Falcon 9V1.2 FT Block 3 launch, carrying the Astrium (now Airbus DS) built 1,341kg Paz Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, finally took place at 1417 GMT on 22 February, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It was launched into a near...
