by David Todd | Mar 27, 2020 | Launches, Military space, Seradata News
The newly inaugurated US Space Force had its first new satellite launched on 26 March. The AEHF 6 was launched at 2018 GMT from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, on a United Launch Alliance (ULA)-operated Atlas V in its 551 configuration. The AEHF 6 satellite will be used... 
by David Todd | Feb 10, 2020 | ESA, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter (SolO) mission has been sent on its way by an Atlas V 411 rocket launch. The launch took place at 0403 GMT from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The Centaur stage of the United Launch Alliance rocket put the SolO spacecraft into a... 
by David Todd | Dec 20, 2019 | Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA
With more than a tad of embarrassment, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine had to admit that the first launch of the first commercial crew-carrying spacecraft, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, had not gone to plan. While the spacecraft was launched as planned to a near... 
by David Todd | Oct 3, 2019 | Launches, Military space
Due to mission delays putting some of its launches beyond 30 Sept 2019, the US Air Force Missiles and Space Center has signed a follow up Launch Operations Support (LOPS) contract with the ULA worth US$1.18 billion covering NRO L-44, NRO L-82, NRO L-91, NRO L-68 and... 
by David Todd | Aug 23, 2019 | Launches, Military space, Seradata News
The final launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Medium rocket successfully carried the second Global Positioning System III navigation satellite, GPS IIIA-2 (aka Magellan) into orbit for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The launch took...
