Rockets have carried humans around the world, mainly in low Earth orbits (LEO), and even, on occasion, to the Moon and back. Yet orbits over the polar regions of the Earth remained unexplored by peopled spacecraft. That was until April when SpaceX launched Fram-2, the...
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 March that we haven’t covered on...
Firefly Blue Ghost 1, the lunar lander owned and operated by Firefly Aerospace, made a successful touchdown on the Moon on 2 March. Just four days later another commercial lunar lander, IM-2 Athena, made its own ill-fated attempt to land on Earth’s natural satellite....
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 December (space orders can be found in...
David Todd explains what made one Falcon 9 launch stand out from the masses Falcon 9 rocket launches have become so frequent that the vast majority are barely mentioned by the press these days. So, what was different about a standard SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5...
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...