The private Impulse Space firm which is planning a private lander mission to Mars has booked its ride for its way to the planet. It has announced that its Mars Cruise Vehicle and Mars Lander will take a flight on board Relativity Space’s Terran reusable rocket....
NASA has reported a serious communications issue with its CAPSTONE mission, which was intended to test an orbit for future lunar exploration plans. Following its launch by an Electron rocket on 28 June, after a series of burns, the Lunar Photon converted kick stage...
Rocket Lab successfully launched an Electron rocket from Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 0955 GMT on 28 June, to an initial low Earth parking orbit. The Electron was carrying CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation...
It has been a busy month for SpaceX and Tesla supremo Elon Musk. The world’s richest man grabbed headlines at least three times in May. His move to buy Twitter, driven by a well-known fondness for the social media platform and his support for “free speech”, came via a...
NASA has outlined the Project Artemis plan to land humans back on the Moon. Having already selected SpaceX to supply its Starship-based lunar lander, NASA has released more detail into the public domain. The plan involves two Starship launches initially into low Earth...
Jared Isaacman, the US billionaire who recently funded a part-charity human space mission called Inspiration4 which flew into orbit on a Falcon 9-launched Crew Dragon in September 2021, is planning to fund three more private human missions, dubbed Polaris. The first...
