Until now it has been a mystery how Elon Musk planned to get his BFS/Starship upper stage back through its fiery re-entry intact from high-energy orbits and super-orbital return speeds from the Moon and Mars. This column speculated that he was planning to use some...
The US-based start-up Stara Space is reported (by Space Intel Report) to have ordered two 0.75kg PocketQube Unicorn 2-A picosat spacecraft from the Scotland-based Alba Space firm. The satellites are called Noor 1-A and Noor 1-B are to demonstrate low Earth orbit...
Seradata gives its sympathy and best wishes to those airline passengers and crew stranded while trying to travel from London’s second airport Gatwick after it was shut down by rogue “drone” aircraft buzzing the apron. While we have sometimes joked...
During November, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the applications of four large-scale communications satellite constellations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which will total more than 8,000 satellites if fully implemented. Of these, the SpaceX...
S7, the Russian firm that took over the assets of the defunct international Sea Launch enterprise, has been outlining its future plans for its S7 Space division. S7 Space has announced that it is to modernise the oil rig-based launch pad and its command vessel with a...
Your correspondent writes this as one who has been accused of being dangerously right-wing by some on the left, and accused of being dangerously left-wing by some on the right. It is always nice to be disliked by everyone! Nevertheless, whether they come from the...
