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Seradata’s recommended space stories – December 2024
We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we're keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don't have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of December (space orders can be found in another...
Satellite and launch orders in December 2024
Construction Orders As a follow-on to its Droid-01 testbed mission, Turion Space secured a US$32.6 million contract from the US military for three more space surveillance satellites Eutelsat ordered 100 partially upgraded OneWeb satellites from Airbus DS to...
Vega C returns to flight after two-year hiatus
Europe’s small solid rocket, Vega C, has returned to flight for the first time in two years since it suffered a launch failure. The rocket took off from Kourou, French Guiana on 5 December at 2120 GMT. It carried the Sentinel 1C radar satellite, built by Thales...
Launches in December 2024
Satellite and launch orders in November 2024
Launch orders: NASA gives SpaceX US$257 million contract for Falcon Heavy launch of its nuclear-powered Dragonfly helicopter drone to Titan SEOPS buys SpaceX Falcon 9 launch for dedicated rideshare mission to GEO while also signing with Axient for in-orbit delivery...
Starship IFT-6 flight splashdown succeeds – but SpaceX aborts booster landing
Observed by Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump, the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Super Heavy/Starship combination lifted off at 2200 GMT on 19 November from Boca Chica, near Brownsville, Texas. Its primary aim was to enact a controlled splashdown in the...
Seradata’s recommended space stories – November 2024
We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we're keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don't have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of November (space orders can be found in another...
The Great Space Race 2024: the tortoise begins to outpace the hare in the race back to the Moon
Every year Seradata Space Intelligence reports on the ‘Great Space Race’ – that is, which nation will be next to set foot on the Moon and which will be first to reach the surface of Mars. David Todd analyses the odds and picks his runners and riders from the main...
Launches in November 2024
Seradata’s recommended space stories – October 2024
We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we're keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don't have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of October (space orders can be found in another...
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