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Satellite and launch orders in November 2024
Launch orders: NASA gives SpaceX US$257 million contract for Falcon Heavy launch of its nuclear-powered Dragonfly helicopter drone to Titan SEOPS buys SpaceX Falcon 9 launch for dedicated rideshare mission to GEO while also signing with Axient for in-orbit delivery...
Military space: Russia uses new type of hypersonic missile on Ukraine
Russia has launched a new type of large missile in a strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, in retaliation to Ukraine hitting targets in the former Soviet Union using missiles built by the US and the UK. The Russian Aerospace Forces’ launch of the new missile, called...
Starship IFT-6 flight splashdown succeeds – but SpaceX aborts booster landing
Observed by Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump, the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Super Heavy/Starship combination lifted off at 2200 GMT on 19 November from Boca Chica, near Brownsville, Texas. Its primary aim was to enact a controlled splashdown in the...
Seradata’s recommended space stories – November 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 November (space orders can be found in another...
The Great Space Race 2024: the tortoise begins to outpace the hare in the race back to the Moon
Every year Seradata Space Intelligence reports on the ‘Great Space Race’ – that is, which nation will be next to set foot on the Moon and which will be first to reach the surface of Mars. David Todd analyses the odds and picks his runners and riders from the main...
The demise of Reaction Engines – a shareholder’s view
David Todd looks woefully at how Reaction Engines, the promising startup he once invested in, has ended up on the point of bankruptcy. It was the promise of a reusable rocket that would cut launch costs tenfold that enticed me to become a shareholder in space...
Trump’s election win analysis: Elon Musk’s space operations could be the big winner, but he will have to deliver
David Todd considers what the result of the US Election means for the future of space. There are rumours that a radical revolution in US Space policy will unfold after Republican candidate Donald Trump returns to the White House as President of the US in January. This...
Launches in November 2024
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...
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