by David Todd | May 2, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, Russia
Stemming from the complaint that SpaceX has made against the US Air Force, the US Court of Federal Claims has temporarily barred the Boeing/Lockheed consortium United Launch Alliance from purchasing any more RD-180 engines from Russia on account that its supplier RD...
by David Todd | Apr 30, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, ESA, Satellites
On its successful third flight, Vega, the European Space Agency’s small launch vehicle which is operated by Arianespace, successfully launched the KazEOsat-1 (DZZ-HR) spacecraft for the Government of Kazakhstan into a Sun-synchronous near polar low Earth orbit. ...
by David Todd | Apr 28, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, Seradata News
It a test to retry the Kurs-NA automatic rendezvous and docking system, the Progress M-021M was released from the International Space Station. at 0858 GMT on 23 April 2014. Issues with the system resulted in a longer than planned approach to the station on a previous...
by David Todd | Apr 28, 2014 | Add category, Russia, Satellites
At 0425 GMT on 27 April 2014, a Proton M/Breeze M launch vehicle was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. On board were two communications satellites heading for a GEO (Geostationary Earth Orbit): Luch 5V is a Russian data...
by David Todd | Apr 28, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, NASA, SpaceX
The US Air Force’s decision to award the joint Boeing/Lockheed Martin United Launch Alliance with a bulk buy of up to 36 Atlas V and Delta IV rocket launches without a proper competition has angered Elon Musk, leader and designer of Space Exploration...
by David Todd | Apr 28, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
In a sign of strengthening resolve over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its alleged attempts to annex Eastern Ukraine, Western nations are beginning to pull their spacecraft from Russian launches or bar commercial satellites from using them. Canada was first to go...
