by David Todd | May 6, 2016 | commercial launch services, Military space, Satellites, SpaceX, Technology
In what was the second successful down-range, drone barge-landing of the type, after a one day delay due to storms, a Falcon 9FT-R first stage successfully safely touched down after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, nearly nine minutes after its 0521 GMT launch...
by David Todd | May 5, 2016 | Technology
Airbus Defence and Space is to lead the TeSeR (Technology for Self-Removal of Spacecraft) project to remove space debris from orbit. The project is to design a module that will act as as a removal back-up in the case of a loss of control over a spacecraft. Airbus...
by David Todd | May 3, 2016 | ESA, exploration, NASA, Seradata News, SLS, SpaceX, Technology
With Elon Musk, of SpaceX, about to announce his master plan to send mankind to Mars (using a massive Super Heavy-lift Launch Vehicle) and with unmanned SpaceX Dragon 2 flights to the planet already in the pipeline, the question that many are asking...
by David Todd | Apr 28, 2016 | Satellites, Technology
The commercial communications satellite operator which is based in Canada, Telesat, has awarded two contracts for test communications satellites to operate in Ka-band. One of these orders goes to SSTL (Surrey Satellite Technology Limited), a UK-based subsidiary of...
by David Todd | Apr 28, 2016 | exploration, NASA, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced that it will be sending a “Red Dragon” unmanned spacecraft to Mars to make a landing on the planet. The craft, based on the Dragon 2 capsule with its vertical landing technology, is designed to test re-entry and...
by David Todd | Apr 26, 2016 | Military space, Suborbital, Technology
While the first flight of Iran’s new Simorgh flown on 19 April 2016 from the Semnan launch site appeared, at first sight, to be a failure, most space analysts believe that the flight was simply a successful suborbital launch test flight of rocket stages. Either way,...
