by Mark Williamson | Jul 27, 2021 | History, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is back online after a month of downtime due to a malfunctioning payload computer. The veteran telescope, launched to low Earth orbit in 1990, was brought back into service on 17 July when controllers switched over to a backup...
by David Todd | Jul 26, 2021 | exploration, Launches, NASA, SLS, SpaceX
While NASA’s US$4.25 billion Europa Clipper unmanned exploration flyby mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa was always mooted as going on the NASA Heavy lift launch vehicle (HLV) SLS, and, in fact, was at one stage Congressionally obliged to do so, in the end...
by Matt Wilson | Jul 21, 2021 | History, International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
The newest ISS module, known as Nauka, was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, by a Proton M at 1458 GMT on 21 July. The Proton rocket flying for the first time in almost a year utilised a 3-stage configuration as opposed to the more familiar 4-stage...
by Matt Wilson | Jun 4, 2021 | International Space Station, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
SpaceX successfully launched the Dragon CRS 22 resupply mission to the ISS at 1729 GMT on 3 June from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. The mission in service to NASA is carrying 3,328 kg of cargo, supplies, and hardware. Of this an important part are the first...
by Matt Wilson | Jun 3, 2021 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA selected two new missions to form part of its Discovery programme on 2 June. These missions lie on the smaller end of the scale for NASA, but will still be funded to the tune of US$500 million each. The winning candidates have been in competition since 2019 when...
