There were a number of launch and spacecraft orders ranging from small to big this month. Smallsat launch services company SEOPS has agreed to buy space on future Intuitive Machines lunar missions to sell on to anyone who wants to send smallsats to the Moon. Intuitive...
In what must feel like a déjà vu moment for SpaceX, the prolific rocket launcher has found its Falcon 9 rockets grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) after one of them lost a booster in a failed landing. At 0748 GMT on 28 August, a Falcon 9 v1.2FT...
A German company’s hopes of launching the UK’s first vertical rocket into orbit this year may have been extinguished, after the first stage of its rocket exploded during a hot-fire test at the SaxaVord spaceport in Shetland, UK. Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) conducted...
NASA has cancelled its VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project 14 months before the golf-cart sized rover, which has already been completed, was set to launch. The news, announced in a teleconference on 17 July, sent shockwaves around the space...
There were a number of launch and spacecraft orders ranging from small to big this month. Military launch orders & bookings Both ULA and SpaceX were smiling as they both got a share of US$1.8 billion set of National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 launch...
