Observed by Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump, the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Super Heavy/Starship combination lifted off at 2200 GMT on 19 November from Boca Chica, near Brownsville, Texas. Its primary aim was to enact a controlled splashdown in the...
We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we’re keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don’t have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of November (space orders can be found in...
Although the second test flight (CERT-2) of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket was successful, it was not without incident. Initially held up by temperature measurements that were out of range, the launch was authorised to go ahead after dawn had...
For the third consecutive month, SpaceX has brought launches of its Falcon 9 rocket to a temporary halt after an anomaly occurred on its latest crewed mission. What happened? Crew-9 was launched aboard a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 at 17:17 (GMT) on 28 September from Cape...
