British television personality Amanda Holden attracts the headlines. She was recently previously pilloried for wearing a too-revealing dress on the family television show Britain’s Got Talent, and thus doing her bit to encourage youngsters to do the same thing...
The atmosphere-monitoring satellite for Europe’s Copernicus programme, Sentinel-5P, was launched on a Rockot launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 0927 GMT on 13 October 2017. The flight of the soon-to-be-retired Rockot was probably its...
Space debris and its growing potential to impact on orbiting satellites and spacecraft is a hot topic of which even the general public is now aware. Space scientists have warned that it is a problem, and one that is getting worse. But just how bad is it and how bad...
Every year Seradata publishes its analysis of how well different nations are doing in the “great space race”. In this, we limit our analysis to manned spaceflight and to its two main exploratory targets: a return to the Moon and setting foot on Mars. On the basis of...
On 11 August, Virgin Orbit signed a contract for the provision of one of their air-launched, small-satellite launch vehicles, LauncherOne, to Italian aerospace manufacturer SITAEL S.p.A. The mission will be for SITAEL’s technology demonstration...
The Soyuz MS-05 mission to the ISS lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 1541 GMT on 28 July. The crew capsule was launched by a Russian Soyuz FG vehicle. Inside the capsule were cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and NASA...
