After two failed launches, hopes were high that the Super Heavy first stage and its Starship upper stage/reusable spaceship would work well on the combinations’s third flight. And the hopes were not misplaced. At 1325 GMT on 14 March 2024, the giant rocket...
At 0201 GMT on 13 March 2024, the maiden flight from the Kii Space Port, Japan, of the Japanese commercial KAIROS (Kii-based Advanced and Instant ROcket System) launch vehicle carrying a dummy satellite ended in failure after only five seconds of flight. The solid...
Crew Dragon – NASA Crew 8 (Endeavour) was successfully launched via a Space X Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Centre, USA at 0353 GMT on 4 March. The initial orbit was 215 x 191 km in a 51.7 degree inclination. After a series of manoeuvres to match their orbits, the...
We’re keeping an eye on space news, so you don’t have to. Here’s our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of February from across the web: Money money money: Acquisitions dominated with the likes of Lockheed Martin...
Farah Ghouri and David Todd followed the launch, descent, landing and subsequent communications of the first private spacecraft lunar landing “Odysseus is alive and well” was the first update on IM-1 from its operator after the lander touched down on the Moon, making...
David Todd, Seradata’s head of space content, reviews ‘The Space Shuttle that Fell to Earth’, a new BBC documentary marking the 21st anniversary of the fatal Space Shuttle Columbia disaster In January 2003 the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program was launched...