Arianespace Press Release: Second Vega launch by Arianespace a success: Proba-V, VNREDSat-1 and ESTCube-1 in orbit Kourou, May 7, 2013 On Monday, May 6, 2013 at 11:06 pm local time in French Guiana, Arianespace successfully launched the second Vega rocket from the Guiana space Center (CSG), orbiting the Proba-V, VNREDSat-1 and ESTCube-1 satellites. Second successful […]
After scrubbing a previous launch attempt due to high level winds in the upper atmosphere, Arianespace has rescheduled the launch of the second Vega rocket for this evening, May 6th, at 10:06:31 p.m. Eastern. The launch will take place from the Guiana Space Center, which the consortium also humbly calls The Spaceport, in Kourou, French Guiana. Launch coverage will be provided […]
A NASA Commercial Crew Program update highlights one of the clear cases where progress in NewSpace suborbital space tourism is helping the orbital Commercial Crew program. Update below Virgin Galactic used a hybrid engine built by Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) Space Systems last Monday for the first powered test flight of the SpaceShipTwo, which is being […]
ExploreMars.Org is putting on the Humans 2 Mars Summit in Washington D.C. this week. The conference, which lasts through Wednesday, May 8th, is being streamed live at Mars.tv. Of particular interest, Dennis Tito and Taber McCallum of the Inspiration Mars Foundation will be giving a presentation at 11:10 AM ET on Wednesday regarding their proposed 2018 circumnavigation of the […]
In case anyone is still not taking SpaceX’s attempt at developing a reusable version of the Falcon 9 seriously, Elon Musk tweeted this photo yesterday, of what is apparently a flight weight version of one of the Falcon 9-R’s four telescoping landing struts. Besides learning that the vehicle will be pronounced “F-niner,” a response to a subsequent tweet added a little more […]
Source: Xinhuanet China conducted its second launch of the year yesterday, only a week after it kicked off its 2013 flight campaign. Yesterday’s launch from the Xichang Launch Center in Sichuan Province was carried out by a Long March-3B booster and carried the Zhongxing-11 communication’s satellite to orbit. The 3B is a three stage booster consisting of hypergolical fueled first […]
Sea Launch released the results of its Failure Review Oversight Board last week regarding the January 31st loss of Intelsat 27. As earlier reports indicated, the failure was assigned to the BIM hydraulic pump built in Ukraine, which provides steering pressurization for the Russian built main engine. Since emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2010, Sea Launch […]
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