The maiden flight of India’s latest rocket, the SSLV, has gone wrong. After an apparently successful launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, at 0348 GMT on 07 August, things began to unravel. The rocket’s upper stage and payloads (which appeared to...
The US defence firm Raytheon which is moving away from what it was most famous for air launched missiles – especially the long-standing AIM-9 Sidewinder family – is now fully engaged in space. During the Farnborough International Airshow 2022, it was...
The final flight in 1971 of Black Arrow, a British satellite carrier rocket developed in the 1960s, remains the first and only successful orbital launch to be conducted by the UK. Even then Black Arrow took off from Australian soil. The British space sector has waited...
While the ELSa-D docking test mission is not going to plan in orbit due to thruster issues, its owner/developer Astroscale did have something to smile about. It has received US$16 milion (€15 million) in funding from the European Space Agency (ESA) to demonstrate an...
A French start-up Gama has contracted NanoAvionics to build its first satellite, GAMA ALPHA, a solar sail demonstration mission. The announcement released on 26 May outlines that it will be based on NanoAvionics’ 6U CubeSat platform and is planned to launch in...
While its competitors seem determined to add ever more numbers to their proposed or under construction satellite constellations, satellite operator Telesat has bucked the trend and reduced the size of its planned Telesat Lightspeed ensemble. Its original plan was to...
