Elon Musk has announced via Twitter that his SpaceX rocket firm will fly a re-entry test vehicle as part of its BFR/BFS research. This project aims to produce an all-reusable rocket system capable of return not only from low Earth orbit (LEO), but also from the Moon...
Space News reports that Swedish start-up satellite operator Ovzon has made a launch booking on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy for an unnamed and yet-to-be-ordered communications satellite set for geostationary orbit. The launch will take place in Q4 2020 at the earliest. The...
A bit like the NASA commercial crew effort, the US Air Force has announced that it is to part fund three companies’ development of new launch vehicles, with a view to signing up two of them (or an outsider) for a full series of launch contracts. The three firms...
At 0222 GMT, 8 October 2018, an SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, on the West Coast of the USA, carrying the SAOCOM 1A, L-band, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The satellite was launched for CONAE...
The German Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) and Spanish, new-space, launch provider, PLD Space signed an agreement on 2 October, during the 69th IAC in Bremen, Germany, for the first test flight of the Arion 1 sub-orbital launch vehicle. The...
The launch of the CENTISPACE 1-S1 small satellite took place at 0413 GMT, 29 September, 2018, from the Jiuguan Satellite Launch Center in Northern China, utilising the Kuaizhou 1A solid-launch vehicle. This marks the second time this new launch vehicle has placed a...
