With Hurricane Irma bearing down on Florida and little chance for another attempt the following day, at 1400 GMT, 7 September, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted-off from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, United States. The mission was for the US Air Force (USAF)...
Having previously claimed that it had a “thermonuclear class” Hydrogen bomb – a nuclear weapon at least several times the power of a “fission class” nuclear bomb – North Korea has made another nuclear test as it tried to demonstrate...
In its first showing at Cape Canaveral, Florida, a five stage version of the Minotaur IV light launch vehicle lifted off at 0604 GMT on 26 August, carrying an experimental space surveillance satellite ORS-5 (SENSORSAT PRECURSOR) to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). From its...
The Russian Ministry of Defence has formally admitted that the June launch of COSMOS 2519 – a military satellite meant for geodesy (gravity mapping) – also had a small inspection satellite aboard the larger spacecraft. Russia is keen to note that this was...
The crisis over North Korea’s nuclear missile programme continued with both sides threatening each other with fearsome rhetoric. After US intelligence agencies suggested that North Korea might have perfected a nuclear warhead for its Intercontinental Ballistic...
An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is defined by treaties as having a minimum range of 5,500 km. So considerable concern was generated by North Korea’s announcement that it had developed and test-flown a full liquid-fuelled ICBM at 0040 GMT on 4 July...
