by Matt Wilson | Feb 17, 2020 | commercial launch services, JAXA, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
Rocket Lab Rocket Lab has received a launch contract from NASA to carry the CAPSTONE, 12U CubeSat, to the Moon. The CAPSTONE satellite being built by Tyvak and Advanced Space, will be placed into a “near-rectilinear halo orbit” around the Moon. This is the... 
by Matt Wilson | Feb 5, 2020 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
SpaceX has been given the contract to launch the upcoming PACE mission on a Falcon 9 vehicle. PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) is a NASA Earth Sciences mission to study phytoplankton as well as clouds and aerosols in the oceans. The mission is planned... 
by David Todd | Feb 3, 2020 | NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
US firm Maxar is celebrating the award to it of two orders. Maxar’s SSL division (the former Space Systems/Loral) has been awarded the construction order by the Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) communications satellite operator Intelsat for its planned Intelsat... 
by Matt Wilson | Dec 6, 2019 | International Space Station, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1729 GMT, 5 December 2019, a Falcon 9 rocket has carried the Dragon CRS-19 (CRS1-19) mission to the ISS. This mission was part of the Commercial ReSupply 1 (CRS1) contract between SpaceX and NASA. The Dragon capsule was... 
by David Todd | Nov 12, 2019 | Blue Origin, exploration, NASA, Orion
The Presidential directive to put humans on the Moon by the end of 2024 is concentrating the mind of NASA’s leadership. To some extent NASA’s hands have been bound by past equipment choices with the ever-present problem of having very limited funds to enact such a...
