Observed by Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump, the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Super Heavy/Starship combination lifted off at 2200 GMT on 19 November from Boca Chica, near Brownsville, Texas. Its primary aim was to enact a controlled splashdown in the...
On a recent suborbital Blue Origin flight, six more people gained the credentials to call themselves astronauts (or, more accurately, space travellers). However, the moment was of especial importance for one passenger, who had waited 63 years to reach space. Ed Dwight...
While Blue Origin’s aspirations of flying regularly have not yet come to pass given the one year hiatus after the nozzle induced-destruction of the uncrewed New Shepard NS-23 flight, it at least has now taken a step forward after a successful reflight at 1642...
Virgin Galactic has completed its sixth sub-orbital, space tourism, flight of the year on 2 November. This mission started at 1502 GMT when the VMS Eve carrier aircraft lifted-off from the Spaceport America, New Mexico. At 1545 GMT VSS Unity was released from Eve to...
The Galactic 04 flight of the suborbital spaceplane SpaceShipTwo Unity took place on 6 October 2023. The flight was dubbed Galactic 04. Carrier aircraft VMS Eve took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico, USA, at 1528 GMT on 6 October 2023 with SpaceShipTwo VSS...
Although Spanish launch firm PLD Space declared that its Miura 1 suborbital test rocket achieved “all technical objectives” on its maiden flight, in truth the flight did not achieve its planned altitude and was meant to have flown higher. Miura 1’s debut launch took...
