The Hughes Network Systems portion of satellite operator EchoStar Corp., announced on 27 July 2020 that it would be investing a second US$50 million into OneWeb. This follows the auction win by a consortium lead by the UK Government and Bharti Global (an Indian...
While an Indian engineer managed to use NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imagery to find the crash site of the Vikram lander of India’spartially successful Chandrayaan-2 mission, the Indian Space Research Agency (ISRO) has subsequently decided that it wants to...
India successfully launched a PSLV QL at 0955 on 11 December 2019, from its Sriharikota launch site. The launch was carrying 10 spacecraft. The main satellite payload was the 628 kg RISAT 2BR1 radar imaging satellite for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). ...
Launching on Wednesday morning, 0358 GMT, 27 November 2019, an Indian PSLV-XL rocket has carried 14 payloads into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The mission launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center, in aid of the primary payload Catosat-3. Cartosat-3 is the first in a new...
With the UK General Election imminent, all the major parties have revealed their manifesto promises. The smaller parties – the SNP, Plaid Cymru, Brexit Party etc – do have some distinguishing features, but in this analysis we will stick mainly to the “big four”. The...
The 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2019) was held in the US Capital Washington DC during October. One advantage of the event being held in a “mainline” capital city – rather than the much smaller city of Bremen last year and Adelaide the...
