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...
Having lost out in the competition to produce NASA’s initial lunar lander for its Human Landing System (HLS), Blue Origin’s National Team celebrated the award of a contract for a second lander design under the agency’s NextSTEP-2 Appendix P Sustaining Lunar...
ESA’s JUICE (JUpiter ICy-moon Explorer) mission, built by Airbus, which is planned to make detailed observations of Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons, has managed to finally deploy the 16 m radar antenna for the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME)....
