Recently when collating the annual heritage update someone asked why we did not include the flight heritage created when the site was operated by Ferranti components, a precursor company to TRAK Microwave Limited? Historically Dundee has listed its heritage as being those parts we could justifiably claim as being made by TRAK and that this claim be…
2016 Heritage Database Update
The 2016 Heritage database has now been updated TRAK reviews its space flight heritage database at the end of each calendar year. The 2016 review has now been completed and with the number of FMs supplied increasing by ~10,000 to ~163,000. This website has now been updated to reflect the additions and corrections for FMs supplied between…
Congratulations Iridium NEXT
The first launch to place Iridium Next satellites into orbit was successfully completed yesterday at 1754 GMT from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 10 communications satellites into low-Earth orbit, is the first of 7 flights that will loft 70 of the 860 kilogram satellites that will comprise the…