Much changed on Earth and in space during 2022. In July the James Webb Telescope, the largest optical telescope in space, delighted the world with stunning infrared images, revealing the most detailed view ever of the Universe. After a series of stalled attempts,...
A PSLV-XL launch vehicle launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India at 0626 GMT on 26 November. It carried nine satellites. The main payload was a one metric ton satellite called EOS-06, also known as Oceansat-3. It is primarily an ocean observation monitoring...
India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully launched an LVM3-2 vehicle on a flight called LVM3 M2 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, at 1837 GMT on 22 October 2022. The vehicle was carrying 36 other OneWeb...
India’s Mars probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), has ceased to function over eight years after its launch on 5 November 2013, according to recent reports. It is also over seven years since its post-launch design life, of 1.5 years, expired. Communications...
There are many space conferences every year, some specialising in military space hardware and applications, some aimed squarely at the commercial market, but when it comes to international space flight – and especially space agencies – there is perhaps only one...
Every August – the silly season when hard news is hard to come by – this column does its bit to help out with an analysis of the runners and riders in the “Great Space Race”. We rate space nations’ space programmes in the form of bookmaker’s odds, according to which...
