July saw more than its fair share of space announcements, including official acceptance of a “vertical” spaceport in Sutherland, North Scotland, and a “horizonal” one getting the nod from Virgin Galactic/Virgin Orbit at Newquay, Cornwall, England. But Cornwall has...
Ahead of the Farnborough International Air Show, the UK Space Agency (UKSA)finally decided on its choice of launch site for vertical launching using conventional rockets. It is on the A’Mhoin peninsular, Sutherland, on the north coast of Scotland. Lockheed Martin...
The FIFA World Cup football competition is proving to be a welcome money spinner for the big satellite operators. The APSCC newsletter reports that Eutelsat is broadcasting 5,500 hours of HDTV (High Definition television) from 11 Russian cities during the...
Mark Sirangelo is giving up his role as head of Sierra Nevada Corp’s (SNC) Space Systems division. Sirangelo gained that position after serving as CEO of SpaceDev, which SNC acquired in 2008. Fatih Ozmen, overall owner of the firm with his partner Eren, takes over...
On 21 June, The United States Air Force (USAF) announced that they had awarded the launch of the classified, AFSPC-52 mission to SpaceX. This mission will utilise the SpaceX Falcon Heavy vehicle and is planned for “late in the fiscal year 2020”. This award...
While the University of Surrey has an excellent reputation in electronics and space research – it was after all the alma mater of the very successful Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) – it has now gained a more worrying recent reputation: its...
