After taking over responsibility for marketing commercial launches of the Atlas V rocket from Lockheed Martin in January, the United Launch Alliance, has something to crow about. It emerged ahead of both Space X and Arianespace, which both already hold Viasat bookings...
The International Launch Services (ILS) improvised Proton Medium plan to compete in the commercial launch market against low cost launch vehicles such as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is off. Having previously denied this programme’s cancellation to Seradata earlier this year,...
On 16 August, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) of the United Kingdom signed an agreement with Antrix Corporation – the commercial wing of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) – for a PSLV mission to carry two SSTL-built satellites to Low...
Still smarting over world reaction to the nerve agent poison assassination attempt on Russian double agent/traitor Sergei Skripal and his daughter (an attack which also killed an innocent bystander in Salisbury, England, who accidentally came into contact with the...
US orbital launch provider Rocket Lab has signed an agreement with Circle Aerospace for ten dedicated Electron launches, with the first launch scheduled to lift off in Q4 2019, with the others expected to follow in 2020. Headquartered in Dubai, Circle Aerospace is a...
NASA has formally announced the names of the nine astronauts who will fly on commercial crew flights procured from Boeing and SpaceX. Some work for NASA and some are ex-NASA astronauts who are employed by commercial space firms. Critics note that the hoopla of this...
