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Human Spaceflight in March: NASA’s Crew 8 reach ISS, Roscosmos aborts mission at the last moment and Chinese astronauts take a spacewalk
Crew Dragon Endeavour, with NASA Crew 8 onboard, was successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Centre, US at 0353 GMT on 4 March. The crew comprised Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Alexander Grebenkin. The initial orbit was 215...
New Space Orders in March 2024: smaller GEO sats are the plat du jour but LEO shows the future
GEO satellite contracts Typifying how the geostationary orbit (GEO) market has moved to small spacecraft for smaller regional operators, GEO satellite manufacturer Astranis has received an order from Thaicom for a small microGEO communications spacecraft as part of a...
OSAM-1: an obituary of the US$2.4 billion NASA refuelling mission that never made it to the launchpad
Farah Ghouri looks back at the life, barely begun, of OSAM-1 after the refuelling demonstration mission is axed by NASA The idea for OSAM-1 (On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1), first known as RESTORE-L, was conceived in 2015, in a bid to help extend...
Launches in March 2024
Mel’s Good Space: International Women’s Day
March marks International Women’s Day (March 8th), and Women’s History Month, and here in the space industry we are fortunate to have amazing females blazing new paths. However, less than 25% of the workforce is female, and at a leadership level it is even fewer, with...
Round-up of recommended space stories in February
We're keeping an eye on space news, so you don't have to. Here's our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of February from across the web: Money money money: Acquisitions dominated with the likes of Lockheed Martin looking to take over...
IM-1 becomes first commercial spacecraft to…(crash) land on the Moon (Updated)
Farah Ghouri and David Todd followed the launch, descent, landing and subsequent communications of the first private spacecraft lunar landing “Odysseus is alive and well” was the first update on IM-1 from its operator after the lander touched down on the Moon, making...
Launches in February 2024
A total of 18 rocket launches were made in February, including one carrying lunar lander IM-1, which later became the first commercial spacecraft to land on the Moon - though not without some hiccups along the way. We followed IM-1's journey from launch all the way to...
Documentary review: The Space Shuttle that Fell to Earth
David Todd, Seradata’s head of space content, reviews ‘The Space Shuttle that Fell to Earth’, a new BBC documentary marking the 21st anniversary of the fatal Space Shuttle Columbia disaster In January 2003 the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program was launched...
Japan’s H3 makes up for maiden failure with orbital success…as Electron launches ADRAS-J to inspect stage of former Japanese H-IIA rocket
H3, Japan’s expendable rocket, has made its first successful flight. The feat comes a year after the rocket’s maiden flight ended in failure and marks a welcome change in fortune for the cost-effective rocket Japan hopes will take it into the future. The H3-22S rocket...
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