by David Todd | Aug 31, 2020 | commercial launch services, Launches, Military space, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, SpaceX
Given that Vandenberg, California, is the main launch site for US missions to polar and near polar Sun-synchronous orbit launches, it was a surprise that SpaceX elected to use Cape Canaveral to launch Argentina’s second three metric ton radar satellite,... 
by David Todd | Aug 11, 2020 | Blue Origin, commercial launch services, Launches, Military space, SpaceX
On behalf of the US Department of Defense, the US Air Force has awarded launch contracts as part of the National Security Space Launch (Phase 2) programme to two launch providers: the United Launch Alliance (ULA) and SpaceX. These are set to take place between 2020... 
by Matt Wilson | Aug 5, 2020 | commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News, Space politics
SES, the Europe-based operator of a global satellite fleet, has selected two American launch companies to fly its C-band replacement satellites. The contracts, announced on 5 August 2020, outline a single dual-payload launch for United Launch Alliance (ULA) and up to... 
by Matt Wilson | Jul 31, 2020 | exploration, History, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
Lifting-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, a ULA Atlas V 541 rocket has carried the Mars 2020 mission into orbit. The launch occurred at 1150 GMT, 30 July 2020. The payload was placed into a “parking” low Earth orbit before the rocket’s Centaur... 
by David Todd | May 18, 2020 | Launches, Military space, Satellites
At 1314 GMT on 17 May, an Atlas V 501 rocket lifted off from its pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the X-37/OTV-6 mission of the X-37B spaceplane. The flight, dubbed USSF-7, marked the first time that the X-37B was carried into space with a service module...
