The UK hosted its biennial Space Conference in Manchester in July. Once the industrial capital of the country, Manchester also happens to be the birthplace of radio astronomy after Sir Bernard Lovell established the science in 1945. Organisations and space industry...
“Stronger than steel” “Stiffer than diamonds” “Capable of sitting on the surface on the sun” No, it’s not superman: It’s graphene. These were just some of the superlatives claimed to describe the “frontier material” in a workshop held during the UK Space Conference....
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...
Europe’s small solid rocket, Vega C, has returned to flight for the first time in two years since it suffered a launch failure. The rocket took off from Kourou, French Guiana on 5 December at 2120 GMT. It carried the Sentinel 1C radar satellite, built by Thales...
There were a number of launch and spacecraft orders this month. NASA is going to fund a Starship Space debris inspection mission launching in late 2026 In a blow for Europe’s (late and expensive) Ariane 6, Eutelsat signs multi-launch agreement for Japan’s...
There were a number of launch and spacecraft orders ranging from small to big this month. Smallsat launch services company SEOPS has agreed to buy space on future Intuitive Machines lunar missions to sell on to anyone who wants to send smallsats to the Moon. Intuitive...
