July 2015 – Page 10 – Spaceflight Now

Data, not debris, takes spotlight in Falcon 9 failure investigation

July 1, 2015 Stephen Clark

Although recovery teams in the Atlantic Ocean have retrieved wreckage from Sunday’s Falcon 9 launch failure, the best clues to the cause of the crash lie in raw data transmitted from the rocket as it disintegrated, SpaceX officials said Wednesday.

Soyuz rocket rolled out for critical ISS cargo launch

July 1, 2015 Stephen Clark

An eight-ton Russian Progress supply ship packed with nearly three tons of food, water and fuel for the International Space Station is ready for liftoff Friday on a vital mission to resume cargo deliveries to the outpost after back-to-back logistics flights fell short.

OneWeb launch deal called largest commercial rocket buy in history

July 1, 2015 Stephen Clark

Backed by a fresh capital infusion and regulatory rights to a valued slice of satellite communications spectrum, the space-based Internet company OneWeb has contracted with Arianespace and Virgin Galactic to deploy hundreds of refrigerator-sized spacecraft around Earth.

OTD…July 1 and STS-94

July 1, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 1997…Columbia launched on the reflight of her shortened Microgravity Science Laboratory mission