The US Department of Defense has made this announcement on behalf of the US Air Force: “Space Exploration Technologies Corp, Hawthorne, California, has been awarded a $40,766,512 modification (P00007) for the development of the Raptor rocket propulsion system...
It was revealed by Space News on 18 October, that the two agencies involved in the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) project, the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Taiwanese Ministry of...
Less than three days after their previous mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, SpaceX have conducted another launch, this time from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The launch took place at 2253 GMT on 11 October, and utilised Launch Complex 39A pad....
Space debris and its growing potential to impact on orbiting satellites and spacecraft is a hot topic of which even the general public is now aware. Space scientists have warned that it is a problem, and one that is getting worse. But just how bad is it and how bad...
In September, Reaction Engines Inc, the US subsidiary of the Oxfordshire, England-based Reaction Engines Limited, announced that it had won a US$2.3 million contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to conduct high-temperature airflow...
SpaceX leader Elon Musk has explained how his vision for travel to Mars encompasses uses in low Earth orbit and on the Moon – and may even act as a point-to-point superfast Earth transportation system. Speaking at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2017),...
