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Seradata’s recommended space stories – January 2025
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 January (space orders can be found in another...
Satellite and launch orders in January 2025
Construction Orders STAR.VISION Aerospace links with universities to build two 5 kg lunar mini-robots to launch with Chang'e 8 in 2028 Thales Alenia Space won an ESA development deal for the Venus EnVision mission and, separately, it secured a US$900 million contract...
New Glenn reaches orbit on its debut flight
After almost a decade in development the maiden flight of New Glenn, NG-1, was a success. However, the icing on the cake was not to be. Blue Origin’s attempt to land the first stage on a fixed platform (called Jacklyn) in the Atlantic Ocean failed. Putting it simply,...
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...
Starship explodes mid-air on 7th test flight, but its Super Heavy booster manages ‘chopstick’ grab landing
SpaceX suffered a launch failure on the seventh test flight of Starship after an unexpected leak and the ensuing explosion led to its untimely end. Some commercial airlines were affected after concerns were raised about falling debris from the launch vehicle. SpaceX...
Two lunar rovers launched by SpaceX Falcon 9 will take very different routes to Moon
David Todd explains what made one Falcon 9 launch stand out from the masses Falcon 9 rocket launches have become so frequent that the vast majority are barely mentioned by the press these days. So, what was different about a standard SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5...
Profitable 2024 for space insurers does not make up for dire 2023
Although the 2024 calendar year proved to be a highly profitable one for space insurers, the industry continued to reel from a revised US$1.3 billion net loss for 2023. Of the losses in 2023, most were relatively small sub-US$30 million claims. It was a series of...
2024 launch failure rate improves despite late losses
Of the 259 orbital launch attempts made in 2024 (four Starship launches were excluded because they were sub-orbital), eight failed to achieve their correct orbits. This gave a failure rate of 3 per cent – relatively low compared with the previous year when it was 6...
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