An LVM3-2 (GSLV 3-2) rocket successfully launched the Chandrayaan-3 mission from the Sriharikota (Satish Dhawan Space Centre), India, at 0905 GMT on 14 July. The ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) mission consisted of a propulsion module, lunar lander and lunar...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 carrying the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid Telescope from Cape Canaveral, US, at 1512 GMT on 1 July. Euclid, named after a Greek mathematician known for founding the study of geometry, will spend the next month travelling...
Following the success of its Mars probe “Hope”, the UAE Space Agency has announced a plan to launch a probe to the asteroid belt by 2028. Known as the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA), from 2030 onwards it will study six asteroids on its way to a final one,...
For Eutelsat, a leading geostationary and low Earth orbit communications satellite operator (with the acquisition of OneWeb), a lack of available launch slots over the next five years is of immediate concern, according to keynote speaker Vijay Thakur, the company’s...
Voyager Space’s new space station will be launched as one item, Skylab-style, rather than being expensively completed in orbit as more recent space stations have been, chief revenue officer Clay Mowry told the Seradata Space Conference in London on 20 June. Mowry’s...
I-Space (Japan) has reported the results of its investigation into the landing failure of its HAKUTO M1 lunar lander on 25 April 2023. At 1533 GMT the Hakuto M1 Lunar lander moved to a 25 x 100 km orbit and at perilune around 1627 GMT it began a braking burn to...
