After a short weather related delay, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, USA at 0536 GMT on 5 October 2023 after short delay due to poor weather conditions at the launch site. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group...
Speaking at a Technical Session on 5 October here at the IAC 2023 Baku, Azerbaijan, Jason Forshaw of Astroscale UK introduced us to the COSMIC programme they are working on. COSMIC (Cleaning up Outer Space Mission through Innovative Capture) is a UKSA-sponsored ADR...
Russian space agency Roscosmos has released its preliminary report about the crash of Luna 25 onto the surface of the Moon. Luna 25, having achieved lunar orbit, was executing a manoeuvre on 19 August to lower this to an elliptical 110 x 16 km “pre-landing orbit” in...
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined communications satellite operator DISH Network US$150,000 for its failure to move its Echostar 7 satellite to either a fast re-entry or a graveyard orbit, in the first ever fine issued for space debris by the...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0200 GMT on 30 September 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-19, a total of 22 v2 Mini satellites for the second-generation Starlink constellation. The...
French satellite operator Eutelsat Communications SA and UK government part-owned OneWeb have completed an all-share merger, to create Eutelsat Group, a new entity raring to compete in the commercial space race with Elon Musk’s Starlink and Jeff Bezos’s Project...
