Much changed on Earth and in space during 2022. In July the James Webb Telescope, the largest optical telescope in space, delighted the world with stunning infrared images, revealing the most detailed view ever of the Universe. After a series of stalled attempts,...
Blue Origin successfully launched its suborbital vehicle New Shepard NS-21 from Texas, USA at 1325 GMT on 4 June 2022. The crewed vehicle carried six people – actually participants rather than a crew – on its autonomous mission to suborbital space and...
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 with the first privately crewed mission to the ISS from the Kennedy Space Centre, USA, at 1517 GMT on 8 April. The first stage of the Falcon 9 (B1062 on its fifth flight) successfully landed on the drone barge “A Shortfall of Gravitas”...
On 31 March a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket and capsule on flight NS-20 launched from the Earth (“Launch Site One” in West Texas) at 1358 GMT on 31 March. It carried six space travellers. All six (five fare paying) humans were safely recovered to Earth...
After a previous launch attempt on 9 December was called off due to high winds, Blue Origin managed to launch the third of its New Shepard human-carrying suborbital flights. The launch was officially named NS-19 but also dubbed Glen Derries in the technology...
Nanoracks, in collaboration with Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin, has formed a team to develop the first free-flying commercial space station. The space station, known as Starlab, will be a continuously crewed commercial platform, dedicated to conducting critical...
