In what has come to be a routine for SpaceX at 0235 GMT on 12 July 2024 a Falcon 9 v1.2FT Block 5 rocket rose from its launch pad at Vandenberg, California USA. It was carrying Starlink Group 9-3, a set of 20 v2 Mini communications satellites, 13 of which had...
At 2341 GMT on 10 July 2024, an upgraded version of the Hyperbola 1 (SQX-1) four stage solid propellant rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan launch site in China. Aboard were three Yunyao-1 weather satellites (Yunyao-1 15, 16 and 17) which are owned by Tianjin Yunyao...
Criticised for its very long development time, its ‘out of date’ non-reusable technology, and for its still too high launch price, nevertheless, Ariane 6, Europe’s new launch vehicle, has been finally launched from the Kourou, French Guiana launch...
There were a number of launch and spacecraft orders ranging from small to big this month. The story that grabbed headlines was NASA’s construction order to SpaceX for a craft to deorbit the ISS in 2030 or soon after. See our story here. Of the more mainstream...
You need to see it, to be it On a recent Saturday at an aircraft hangar on a Royal Navy airbase in Cornwall, UK was filled to the rafters with hundreds of young girls. These girls were coding, launching rockets, building robots, using flight simulators and engineering...