by David Todd | Dec 13, 2018 | History, Seradata News
SpaceX congratulated itself that its recent wayward Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 reusable rocket first stage (on the otherwise successful launch of the Dragon CRS-16 space mission) had managed to land safely in the Atlantic Ocean despite missing its Landing Zone 1 landing pad...
by David Todd | Oct 22, 2018 | Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
While the US Congress or the Russians themselves may not like it, a Russian RD-180 engine was used to successfully launch a US military communications satellite at 0415 GMT on 17 October. The 6,168 kg Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite No. 4, (AEHF 4)...
by David Todd | Oct 15, 2018 | commercial launch services, Launches, Military space, Seradata News
A bit like the NASA commercial crew effort, the US Air Force has announced that it is to part fund three companies’ development of new launch vehicles, with a view to signing up two of them (or an outsider) for a full series of launch contracts. The three firms...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 28, 2018 | Blue Origin, commercial launch services, Seradata News
American launch provider ULA (United Launch Alliance), announced on 27 September, that after a three-year competition it has decided on the Blue Origin BE-4 engine, over the Aerojet Rocketdyne AR-1, to power their in-development Vulcan rocket’s first-stage...
by David Todd | Sep 11, 2018 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
After taking over responsibility for marketing commercial launches of the Atlas V rocket from Lockheed Martin in January, the United Launch Alliance, has something to crow about. It emerged ahead of both Space X and Arianespace, which both already hold Viasat bookings...
