The UK Space sector has been receiving mixed signals from government, with two major announcements highlighting this see-sawing movement. UK Space Agency is folded into government The first is that the UK Space Agency (UKSA) has been absorbed by the UK...
Firefly Aerospace has revealed the cause of the launch failure of its Alpha rocket that took place four months ago. On its sixth launch, Alpha lifted off from the Vandenberg launch site in California, at 1337 GMT on 28 April. At first all seemed to go well with the...
Chinese startup Landspace suffered a launch failure after its Zhuque-2E rocket experienced an electrical anomaly during its sixth test flight, ending its run of successes. Zhuque-2E took off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China at 01:17 GMT on 15 August....
After three consecutive flight failures plus an on-land test explosion, there was a lot riding on the 10th suborbital test flight (IFT-10) of the Starship/Super Heavy. Success was needed for both SpaceX and for NASA’s Artemis lunar programme – and it was...
Here are the latest launch and spacecraft orders which were announced in August 2025: Construction Orders Echostar makes initial US$1.3 billion order for 100 comsats from MDA (this has since been cancelled though) Intuitive Machines cancels York Space five sat order...
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