Australia’s Eris Block 1 rocket, made by Gilmour Space Technologies, had a rough start to its career with a pre-launch failure delaying the vehicle’s maiden flight. The nose cone/fairing, triggered by an electrical fault, “pinged” off the rocket prematurely while it...
SpaceX has suffered another Integrated Flight Test failure and lost both Starship and its Super Heavy booster. The IFT-9 test flight of the Super Heavy/Starship combination took place from the Boca Chica base in West Texas at 2336 GMT on 27 May. All seemed to go well...
India’s space agency was left a little shaken after its dependable PSLV launch vehicle sustained a rare failure. The launch took place from the Satish Dhawan Launch Center in Sriharikota, India at 0029 GMT on 18 May. On board was the EOS-09 satellite (also known as...
A string of recent orders indicates a rising appetite for point-to-point (P2P) deliveries on Earth, as the US military looks for ways to deliver large cargos anywhere in the world within an hour. The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) of the US Department of Defense (DoD)...
The following construction and launch orders for the space industry were announced in April 2025: Construction Orders: Astranis received a US$115 million GEO comsat order for Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom China revealed solar system exploration launch plans Boeing...
