by David Todd | Nov 6, 2015 | Launches, Military space, Technology
The maiden flight of the rail-launched three stage solid rocket Spark 1 (Super Strypi) small launch vehicle ended in failure less than a minute after lift-off from the Barking Sands launch site in Hawaii at 0345 GMT on 4 November 2015. Details of the failure have not...
by David Todd | Nov 3, 2015 | commercial launch services, ESA, Seradata News, Technology
The transatlantic aerospace, shipbuilding and defence conglomerate, BAE Systems, has agreed to purchase a 20% shareholding in Reaction Engines Limited for £20.6 million. Following on from work on the HOTOL launch vehicle at British Aerospace and the RB545...
by David Todd | Oct 30, 2015 | Technology
At the well attended 4th UK Space Propulsion Workshop held under the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) at the Imperial War Museum in London in October, the subject of whether the UK should have a small launch vehicle and a UK spaceport, came up. It was accepted by the...
by David Todd | Oct 28, 2015 | Satellites, Technology
Inmarsat has signed a contract to provide high-speed inflight connectivity services for passengers onboard Lufthansa’s European continental fleet. Under the agreement, Inmarsat will equip more than 150 Lufthansa airlines aircraft with Global Xpress (GX), with...
by David Todd | Oct 7, 2015 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
During September 2015, after a review over their enforceability by the US Patent and Trademark office, the Blue Origin company decided to withdraw 13 of the 15 patent claims it had made against SpaceX over the latter’s subsequent use of a vertically landing...
by David Todd | Oct 7, 2015 | Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
Some of the small cubesat craft that were carried to the International Space Station on 24 August 2015 by the HTV-5 cargo craft have now been released into orbit. First to be ejected from the JEM module airlock were the GOMX-3 and AAUSAT 5 tracking communications...
