South Korean company INNOSPACE has launched a sub-orbital rocket from the Alcântara Launch Center, Brazil. The mission took place at 1752 GMT on 19 March and saw the Hanbit-TLV vehicle fly on a sub-orbital trajectory. The mission was primarily intended to test a...
For the Tuesday opening keynote talk at the SATELLITE 2023 show in Washington DC, Dave Limp, the Senior Vice President of devices & services at Project Kuiper, gave attendees an update on the progress of the Amazon LEO constellation. He confirmed that the first...
Endeavour, a Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four people for NASA’s Crew-6 mission, is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX’s Endeavour was launched on a Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA at...
Astra Space has released its investigation findings into the Astra Rocket 3.3 launch failure which lost a pair of NASA’s TROPICS-1 mission satellites. The TROPICS-1 mission launched on 12 June 2022 on Astra’s Rocket 3.3, serial number LV0010. The rocket...
SpaceX is transitioning to a new design of spacecraft as it takes its Starlink constellation forward. The Starlink Group 6-1 mission was launched on a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket at 2313 GMT on 27 February from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as part of the Starlink Gen 2...
Nuclear Thermal rocket propulsion has been mooted since the 1960s. The idea is to use nuclear power to heat rocket propellants so that the Specific Impulse – the efficiency measure of how much “push” you get per kilo of propellants – is more than doubled compared with...
