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...
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...
