OneWeb LLC, a major player in the nascent LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellite communications market, put itself into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a New York court on 27 March 2020. It follows failure to negotiate additional funding, which was partly blamed on the “market...
The first-of-its-kind docking of a service spacecraft with its client spacecraft, in this case of MEV-1 with Intelsat 901, occurred at 0715 GMT on 25 February 2020. This was the first time that two commercial satellites had docked together in-orbit. It was also...
The now fully “domesticated” American company Maxar Technologies inc. is to sell its legacy Canadian, business MDA (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Ltd.). This is following an announcement made at the end of 2019. The intended recipients of the...
At 1357 GMT on 25 September, a Soyuz-FG rocket lifted off from Launch Site No. 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying the Soyuz MS-15 crew mission to the International Space Station (ISS). This launch marked the end of some eras – and the beginning of...
African leaders paid tribute to Robert Mugabe, former President and liberator of the African nation of Zimbabwe who has died at the age of 95. But there were few real tears for him from his own people. For, while hailed as a liberator of the black majority from white...
The post of UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, with its cabinet attendee rank, is an attractive position for up-and-coming politicians, not least because it is also in charge of the “sexy” subject of space – now seen as increasingly important to the...
