With a record 11,000 attendees and over 2,000 presentations, there were too many ideas, exhibition stands, papers and talks for anyone to cover comprehensively. The sense of ‘FOMO’ (fear of missing out) was inescapable as attendees, lowly humans that we are, lack the...
For the third consecutive month, SpaceX has brought launches of its Falcon 9 rocket to a temporary halt after an anomaly occurred on its latest crewed mission. What happened? Crew-9 was launched aboard a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 at 17:17 (GMT) on 28 September from Cape...
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 September (space orders can be found...
Conversations over dinner with my in-laws usually revolve around the latest cricket game or the best new dish sampled, but last week space affairs made an unexpected appearance between courses. With wide-eyed disbelief, my husband’s father asked if we had heard about...
NASA has formally selected SpaceX to produce a vehicle to allow a controlled entry of the International Space Station (ISS) and safe landing in the sea. The decision comes in tandem with the agency’s supporting role in commercial efforts to create smaller commercial...
A spacewalk attempt on the International Space Station (ISS) was dramatically cut short after a spacesuit water leak occurred inside the airlock. The Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA-90) started on 24 June with the two astronauts, Tracy Dyson and Mike Barratt, fully...
