Japan successfully launched the IGS Optical 7A reconnaissance satellite on a H-IIA 202 (H2A 202) launch vehicle from Tanegashima Space Centre at 0134 GMT on 9 February. The launch had been previously delayed from 27 January due to Nitrogen gas leak in the ground...
The 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2019) was held in the US Capital Washington DC during October. One advantage of the event being held in a “mainline” capital city – rather than the much smaller city of Bremen last year and Adelaide the...
Lifting-off from the Tanegashima Space Center, Southern Japan, at 1605 GMT, 24 September, a Japanese H-2B rocket has carried an HTV resupply freighter into LEO. This is the eighth HTV mission in service of the ISS conducted by JAXA. This mission carried 4,100 kg of...
During propellant loading three and a half hours before the launch of the JAXA HTV-8 cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS), a significant fire broke out at the base of the launch pad beneath the H2B launch vehicle at 1805 GMT on 10 September 2019....
The “first ever space crime” may have been committed by astronaut Anne McClean, who is accused of using the International Space Station’s (ISS) Wi-Fi to access illegally the bank account of her estranged female spouse Summer Worden. However, in this...
Every August Seradata does its usual analysis of the “runners and riders” in “The Great Space Race” between the major space nations. Here we judge each space programme on the basis of technological ability, financial and other resources, national will and, most...
