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No chopsticks landing for Super Heavy booster but Starship IFT-6 flight has good re-entry and splashdown with its banana passenger
Overseen by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and US President-elect Donald Trump, the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Super Heavy/Starship combination lifted off at 2200 GMT on 19 November 2024 from its launch site at Boca Chica, near Brownsville, Texas. The flight was again...
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Seradata’s recommended space stories – October 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 October (space orders can be found in another...
Decolonising space, the ‘used rocket’ marketplace and a Kenyan spaceport: new ideas from IAC 2024
With a record 11,000 attendees and over 2,000 presentations, there were too many ideas, exhibition stands, papers and talks for anyone to cover comprehensively. The sense of ‘FOMO’ (fear of missing out) was inescapable as attendees, lowly humans that we are, lack the...
Satellite and launch orders in October 2024
Launch Orders Japan's H3 gains launch order for Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) mission SpaceX is awarded US Space Force launch orders worth US$733.5 million for seven launches for SDA and two for NRO Firefly Alpha gets multi-launch contract for True...
Spacewalking in style: Axiom unveils spacesuits designed with Prada
Amid the plethora of people at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan, one of the fashion capitals of the world, there was undoubtedly one outfit that turned the most heads: that of Axiom’s Artemis spacesuit. The Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit...
IAC 2024: Space cooperation – but don’t sit next to me
The annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is the primary meeting place for space agencies to get together. That and the fact that it was hosted in highly fashionable Milan, in Northern Italy, made IAC the place to be seen this October. This fact was...
Intelsat IS-33e comsat explodes into 500 pieces of debris
A communications satellite in Intelsat’s Epic fleet created debris in space after it suffered an explosion in geostationary orbit at 0430 GMT on 19 October. Update on 29 October: Initial reports estimated that the event created 20 pieces of debris, but it was later...
SpaceX catches Super Heavy booster in historic feat during IFT-5 Starship test flight
SpaceX has taken a dramatic leap towards its dream of placing the first humans on Mars after the company successfully returned a 232-foot-tall (71-metre) booster to its launchpad on its first attempt. The Starship Super Heavy Test Flight 5 (IFT-5) (Ship 30 upper stage...
ULA on track for certification after Vulcan Centaur test flight despite booster nozzle blow out
Although the second test flight (CERT-2) of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket was successful, it was not without incident. Initially held up by temperature measurements that were out of range, the launch was authorised to go ahead after dawn had...
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