On 20 January 2023 JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and NASA astronaut Nicole Mann opened the Quest airlock hatch at 1312 GMT. The astronauts switched their spacesuits to internal battery power to begin their spacewalk at 1314 GMT. Their objective was to install another...
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,...
An Epsilon-2 Adv CLPS rocket was launched from Uchinoura, Kagoshima, Japan, at 0050 GMT on 12 October 2022, but failed to achieve orbit after its second stage was detected to have a fault during flight. When it became apparent that orbit would not be achieved, the...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on the East coast of the US, at 1600 GMT on 5 October. The vehicle was bearing Crew Dragon which carried the Crew 5 human astronaut mission. It was the fifth operational crewed...
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...
IHI Aerospace (IA) – the defence division of Japanese engineering corporation IHI Corporation – has signed a contract for the launch of two earth observation satellites later this year in its first commercial launch order. The two synthetic aperture Rader...
