by David Todd | May 24, 2019 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
SpaceX has launched the first 60 satellites in its Starlink low Earth orbit constellation of communications satellites aimed at providing high bandwidth with low latency to mobile users on Earth. The launch, which had been delayed by over a week by upper level winds...
by Philip Hylands | Mar 4, 2019 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, SpaceX, test
A Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 launch vehicle successfully launched the first unmanned test of the Dragon 2 crew capsule – called DM-1 – at 0749 GMT on 2 March. The launch took place from Kennedy Space Center, near Cape Cape Canaveral in Florida. The initial orbit achieved...
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...
