Melissa Quinn, General Manager of Seradata, introduces her new regular column. If any of you have ever heard me speak at an event, or on my social media, you would have heard me reference Good Space. Good Space is my ‘why’ – the thing that gets me up every...
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...
NASA has announced a delay in its Artemis human missions to the Moon. Artemis II, originally scheduled for late 2024, has been postponed until no earlier than September 2025 after the agency cited safety concerns. The delay is attributed to the unexpectedly high...
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...
