by Matt Wilson | Jan 25, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News, SpaceX
It has been reported by Reuters that Arianespace has lowered the launch price of its mainstay Ariane 5 launch vehicle, in response to fierce competition in the Asia-Pacific region from industry disruptor SpaceX. The two companies are competing for two satellite launch...
by David Todd | Dec 18, 2018 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Having ordered a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch for a satellite, start up satellite operator Ovzon has ordered a small GEO communications satellite called Ovzon 3. As it eyes giving a mobile broadband service to the Middle East and African region, Ovzon ordered the...
by Matt Wilson | Dec 5, 2018 | commercial launch services, History, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
After a series of delays due to reasons ranging from national holidays to high winds, the Sun-Synch Express mission for Spaceflight Industries was launched by a Space X Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket at 1834 GMT, 3 December 2018. The launch from the western SpaceX launch pad...
by Matt Wilson | Nov 28, 2018 | Constellation, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
During November, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the applications of four large-scale communications satellite constellations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which will total more than 8,000 satellites if fully implemented. Of these, the SpaceX...
by David Todd | Nov 26, 2018 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, NASA, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, SpaceX
We joked a month or two ago that some would be wondering what Elon Musk had been smoking when they found out that the latest BFS (now called Starship) design had been deliberately changed to make it look more like Tintin’s rocket ship. Now NASA is apparently doing the...
