#orbcomm

Trucking and fleet management solutions provider ORBCOMM has confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind recent service outages preventing trucking companies from managing their fleets.

C O N T E N T S:

KEY TOPICS

When your business travels all over the map, it is critical to know the location and arrival times of your vehicles with reliable GPS tracking devices for cars.(More…)

GPS vehicle tracking device is clearly a helpful product, since it is prepared to emphasize important areas of data associated with your vehicle or automobile.(More…)

POSSIBLY USEFUL

Company vehicle…

World’s first recovered orbital rocket raised for display.

Watch a high-speed footage of past SpaceX launches

The video shows what SpaceX has been up to these past few months. SpaceX/Flickr If you didn’t get the chance to watch previous SpaceX missions blast off, this video can bring you up to speed. It shows what the private space corporation has been up to these past few months, including the engine burn and launch of the May mission that carried Japanese communications satellite JCSAT-14 to orbit.…

C O N T E N T S:

KEY TOPICS

From MercuryGate International MercuryGate is the largest best of breed, global transportation management solution provider deployed on the cloud.(More…)

They really help drive better decisions that fleets can make around not only lowering fuel costs, lowering maintenance costs, and increasing safety,” said Jeff Pape, SVP product and marketing for the Global…

Orbcomm booster arrives at SpaceX HQ ahead of display.

Making a first-ever second road trip across the country, the Falcon 9 booster from December’s Orbcomm 2 mission arrived back at SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, California earlier this week.

The booster will be displayed vertically outside the building as a monument to the company’s achievements. Covered in a protective plastic wrap or the overland journey, the booster was uncovered yesterday outside the massive facility.

Since the stage will go on display, the original nine Merlin-1D engines had to be removed. International Trafficking in Arms Regulations determine that active-duty engines can not be publicly displayed, since they contain technologically sensitive information.Therefore, nine mock-up engines were installed before the booster left Florida.

Technicians also cleaned up the booster’s airframe, as evidenced by pictures of the stage in the HIF at LC-39A, where it has been since late December. However, the lower portion of the stage near the engines remains charred to show its fiery reentry.

Two of the rarest vehicles in existence -  used rockets. 

Located at Kennedy Space Center’s LC-39A, the two recovered Falcon 9 first stages are being kept in the Horizontal Integration Facility. Here, the Orbcomm OG2 stage has been undergoing inspection and disassembly of its engines. The CRS-8 stage will undergo initial inspection here before being prepared for a series of static fires at the renovated pad in the upcoming months.

In the foreground is the Falcon 9 first stage from the CRS-8 mission, which performed the first-ever successful sea landing on the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship.

In the background is the first stage from the Orbcomm OG-2 mission, which marked the first time in history an orbital-class rocket was recovered following its flight, landing back at Cape Canaveral at LZ-1.