The ‘stranded’ pair of NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, finally returned to Earth on 18 March bringing an end to their extended stay on the International Space Station (ISS). The venture was supposed to last just eight days but ended up exceeding nine...
Rockets have carried humans around the world, mainly in low Earth orbits (LEO), and even, on occasion, to the Moon and back. Yet orbits over the polar regions of the Earth remained unexplored by peopled spacecraft. That was until April when SpaceX launched Fram-2, the...
We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we’re keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don’t have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of January (space orders can be found in...
After almost a decade in development the maiden flight of New Glenn, NG-1, was a success. However, the icing on the cake was not to be. Blue Origin’s attempt to land the first stage on a fixed platform (called Jacklyn) in the Atlantic Ocean failed. Putting it simply,...
In what must feel like a déjà vu moment for SpaceX, the prolific rocket launcher has found its Falcon 9 rockets grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) after one of them lost a booster in a failed landing. At 0748 GMT on 28 August, a Falcon 9 v1.2FT...
During the Launch Services Executives panel session, Stephanie Bednarek, of SpaceX, said that the company intended to conduct 148 launches during 2024. If achieved, this would be an increase of more than 50 per cent on its tally for 2023. Fellow panellist Mark Peller,...
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