Despite a seemingly smooth launch, three Yunyao-1 weather satellites (Yunyao-1 15, 16 and 17) did not reach orbit after the Hyperbola 1 (SQX-1) experienced a fourth stage failure, Chinese authorities have disclosed. An upgraded version of the Hyperbola 1 (SQX-1) four...
Ariane 6, Europe’s new rocket, has finally been launched from Kourou, French Guiana. The journey to this milestone has been far from smooth. The launch vehicle has been the target of much criticism aimed at its extended development time, its ‘out of date’ non-reusable...
There were a number of launch and spacecraft orders ranging from small to big this month. The story that grabbed headlines was NASA’s construction order to SpaceX for a craft to deorbit the ISS in 2030 or soon after. See our story here. Of the more mainstream...
You need to see it, to be it On a recent Saturday at an aircraft hangar on a Royal Navy airbase in Cornwall, UK was filled to the rafters with hundreds of young girls. These girls were coding, launching rockets, building robots, using flight simulators and engineering...
On its final voyage, the Virgin Galactic suborbital rocket SpaceShipTwo ‘Unity’ was launched on the Galactic 07 human rocket flight to the edge of space. The carrier aircraft VMS Eve lifted off from Spaceport America in New Mexico at 1428 GMT on 8 June with Unity...
