by David Todd | Sep 10, 2019 | Launches, Satellites, SpaceX
SpaceX has received a two-launch launch order from SES to launch the first seven of the SES O3b mPower series of satellites. The satellites will be launched with four of the Boeing-built 1,200kg satellites on one launch and three on another. The order of this flights...
by Matt Wilson | Aug 7, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Lifting-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 2323 GMT, on 6 August 2019, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle carried the AMOS-17 communications satellite into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). AMOS-17 is an multi-band satellite for Israeli FSS operator Space...
by Matt Wilson | Jul 26, 2019 | International Space Station, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Following a week of delays, the SpaceX Dragon CRS-18 ISS resupply mission lifted-off from Cape Canaveral, United States of America, at 25 July, at 2202 GMT, utilising the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The mission is carrying 1,691 kg of supplies and equipment to the...
by David Todd | Jul 9, 2019 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science
NASA has formally awarded a contract for the launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission. This will take place on a Falcon 9 rocket flying from the Kennedy Space Centre on April 2021. The launch will use a preflown reusable first stage. The...
by David Todd | Jul 4, 2019 | Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a two-satellite construction order as part of the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM).by Norway’s state-run firm Space Norway which is offering communications payloads on board the satellites for Norwegian Ministry of...
