Ariane 6, Europe’s new rocket, has finally been launched from Kourou, French Guiana. The journey to this milestone has been far from smooth. The launch vehicle has been the target of much criticism aimed at its extended development time, its ‘out of date’ non-reusable...
Labour won the UK general election by a landslide in terms of the number of seats secured, however its share of the votes cast on 4 July – on a noticeably low turnout – was just 34 per cent. So, it seems that while most of the electorate wanted the incumbent...
There were a number of launch and spacecraft orders ranging from small to big this month. The story that grabbed headlines was NASA’s construction order to SpaceX for a craft to deorbit the ISS in 2030 or soon after. See our story here. Of the more mainstream...
You need to see it, to be it On a recent Saturday at an aircraft hangar on a Royal Navy airbase in Cornwall, UK was filled to the rafters with hundreds of young girls. These girls were coding, launching rockets, building robots, using flight simulators and engineering...
NASA has formally selected SpaceX to produce a vehicle to allow a controlled entry of the International Space Station (ISS) and safe landing in the sea. The decision comes in tandem with the agency’s supporting role in commercial efforts to create smaller commercial...
