by David Todd | Jun 14, 2019 | Satellites, SpaceX, Technology
While Space X originally announced that all 60 Starlink communications satellites launched by a Falcon 9 on 24 May were in contact with ground control, according to analysis of orbital raising manoeuvres four satellites appeared to have been behaving differently from...
by David Todd | Jun 13, 2019 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
At 1417 GMT on 12 June, the Canadian three-satellite Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) – was launched by a Falcon 9v1.2r Block 5 into a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit of circa 604 x 584 km at an inclination of 97.4 degrees relative to the equator. The...
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 Matt Wilson | May 9, 2019 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
At the GEO Launch Services panel during the SATELLITE 2019 conference, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell, announced that SpaceX would be conducting their first Starlink launch on the 15 May 2019. Shotwell wouldn’t give the exact number for the amount of...
by David Todd | May 9, 2019 | China, Military space, Seradata News, Space Arts, SpaceX
While the UK Prime Minister Theresa May might be at risk of being imminently fired herself – not least over her determined self-righteousness over her Brexit plan (Update on 28 May 2019: Prime Minister May has now given in her notice to quit and will leave...
