After being in a slow spin for nearly a month, NASA’s CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) mission to the Moon was confirmed as being recovered to full three axis control on 7 October. Advanced Space,...
India’s Mars probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), has ceased to function over eight years after its launch on 5 November 2013, according to recent reports. It is also over seven years since its post-launch design life, of 1.5 years, expired. Communications...
The month of September 2022 saw a spate of small satellite orders (plus some shared rides) made. These included: US Start-up Rogue Space Systems is planning a pair of satellites dubbed a cubesat-class spacecraft dubbed Space Robot to service and repair small...
NASA has selected Axiom Space to deliver a moonwalking-capable spacesuit for the planned Artemis III human landing mission. This will land astronauts onto the surface of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. The award – the first one under a competitive...
Every August – the silly season when hard news is hard to come by – this column does its bit to help out with an analysis of the runners and riders in the “Great Space Race”. We rate space nations’ space programmes in the form of bookmaker’s odds, according to which...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, USA at 2308 GMT on 4 August. The vehicle was carrying Danuri (meaning “enjoy the Moon”) – better known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO). As South Korea’s first Lunar...
