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 David Todd | Sep 3, 2019 | ESA, Satellites, SpaceX
In what resembled a space “game of chicken”, two satellites heading towards each other had to decide which would move first. After a warning from the US Space Command’s tracking system, the European Space Agency (ESA) was forced to move its Aeolus wind study...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 2, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
It was revealed in company reports on 23 August that Ovzon, the Swedish satellite broadband company, had signed a deal with European launch provider Arianespace for a 2021 launch utilising the Ariane 5. This replaces a previously declared deal – recently described as...
by David Todd | Aug 28, 2019 | SpaceX, Technology
While it has made a brief vertical up-and-down hop before, the SpaceX Starhopper made a proper lift-off, traverse, and vertical landing on 27 August. This was the day after an ignition failure of the LOx (Liquid Oxygen)/Methane Raptor engine on 26 August prevented an...
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...
