Leading Apollo astronaut, test pilot, engineer and airline executive, Colonel Frank Borman, has died at the age of 95. Frank Borman was a pioneer astronaut who commanded the Apollo 8 flight – the first human mission around the Moon. This key flight enabled the later...
Via a launch of its Long March 3B/G2 (2) Improved (CZ-3B/G2 (2) Improved) rocket, China put its new Chinasat-6E (Zhongxing-6E) communications satellite into orbit from Xichang launch site in China. The launch occurred at 1123 GMT on 9 November. The spacecraft was...
The cause of the launch failure of the RS-1 launch of a pair of Varisat-1 communications technology test satellites in January has been revealed. The launch took place at 2327 GMT on 10 January 2023 from Kodiak Island, Alaska, USA. At 10.87s after lift-off the first...
Rocket Lab has released the results of its investigation into the launch failure of its Electron KS rocket on 17 September 2023. Rocket Lab launched Electron KS from Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 0655 GMT on 19 September 2023. The Electron was carrying Acadia 2,...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0505 GMT on 8 November 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-27, a total of 23 (V2-mini) satellites for the second-generation Starlink...
Apollo astronaut Ken Mattingly who became famous for mission the failed Apollo 13 mission in 1970 over a German measles health scare, but later became a hero to its rescue on the ground, has died at the age of 87. Mattingly had been a US Navy pilot, test pilot, and...
