For the third time in less than a month, the European Spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, played host to an launch by European launch provider, Arianespace. At 2345 GMT, 1 June, an Ariane 5 ECA heavy-lift rocket, lifted off from the ELA-3 pad at Kourou carrying the...
While British workers still commute there, London is not really a British city anymore. For most “normal” salary workers cannot really afford to live there (only international investors and foreign national bankers can afford central London). Manchester is different....
Although Rocket Lab made a self-congratulatory announcement that it had successfully made it to space, this was just spin. Its public relations department was putting a brave face on the fact that the firm’s maiden (first) flight of its two-stage Electron rocket did...
While Soyuz rockets are more usually used to being used to launch spacecraft and satellites to low and medium Earth orbits, the most recent flight from the Sinnamary launch site near Kourou was unusually launching a satellite on its way to a geostationary orbit. At...
Airbus Safran Launchers (ASL), the joint venture launch vehicle and rocket engine manufacturing firm owned by major European space industry players, Airbus Group SE and Safran SA, has announced a major rebranding. From 1st July, the firm will be known as the...
Space News (Caleb Henry) reports that the China Great Wall Industries Corp has had another success with its strategy of offering turnkey construction and launch deals to commercial and national enterprises around the world. The deals were developed as a way of getting...
