While pressurised sealed vessels like submarines have an obvious parallel in manned spacecraft.- there are also some elements of their technology which are actually shared between vessels flying in orbit and those under the sea. An example of one of these is the...
The US military is now under orders from the US Congress to end the use of any commercial satellites that have been launched by Russian or Russian-sourced rockets. The ban comes into play from 2023 onwards and raises doubts over the commercial viability of the Proton...
Roscosmos has revealed to NASA that the Soyuz MS-02 capsule’s re-entry and landing in April – carrying astronaut Shane Kimbrough and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko back to Earth from the International Space Station – did not go quite to plan. At 8 km...
The launch of the Progress MS-07 on the ISS-68P mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) ended in a no-go when a launch abort was triggered in the final minute before lift off on 12 October. The launch had been due to take place at 0932:03 GMT but...
Seradata gives its sympathy to all those involved in the Las Vegas mass shooting in October. As we have noted before – guns have their place – even on Soyuz spacecraft where they are carried for defence against wild animals in case an Earth return goes off...
Arianespace announced on 14 September that it had received the first two confirmed launch orders/confirmations for its new Ariane 6 launch vehicle (the SES O3b constellation currently holds options). The rockets, which will fly in a -62 configuration using two solid...
