We’re keeping an eye on space news, so you don’t have to. Here’s our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of January from across the web: Upcoming Missions: New rockets due to fly in 2024 while another lunar landing...
The dust had barely settled from the fireworks and celebrations of the new year, before launch vehicles were being launched again. Keep up with the latest launches in January on this page, as we will regularly update our tracker: 1 January 2024...
Farah Ghouri finds out the status of the Lunar Pathfinder project, why the cubesat bubble is far from bursting, and how it will be “quite interesting” to discover life beyond Earth, from Sir Martin Sweeting, chief executive of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited...
The number of launches has broken the all-time record – again. This year there were 223 orbital launch attempts, which breaks last year’s record of 186 attempts. This continues the trend since 2019, and the general trend since 2005, of an ever-increasing number of...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 2235 GMT on 07 January 2024. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-35, a total of 23 v2 Mini Starlink communications satellites for the second-generation Starlink...
The Peregrine PM-1 lunar lander began its journey to the Moon on 8 January on board a Vulcan-Centaur 542 rocket launched on its maiden flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 0718 GMT. If it succeeds in its landing attempt on 23 February, it will become the first US...
