NASA’s CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) mission achieved its main objective when the 12U CubeSat spacecraft made a braking burn to enter a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon. It completed...
An Antares 230+ rocket operated by Northrop Grumman lifted off from the Wallops Island launch site in Virginia, USA, at 1032 GMT on 7 November. On board was a Cygnus NG-18 freighter spacecraft headed for the International Space Station (ISS) on a cargo mission for...
After a one day delay caused by bad weather at the landing site, The SpaceX operated Crew Dragon NASA Crew 4 (Freedom) space capsule undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) IDA-3 port at 1605 GMT on 14 October 2022 with astronauts with Kjell Lindgren,...
After being in a slow spin for nearly a month, NASA’s CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) mission to the Moon was confirmed as being recovered to full three axis control on 7 October. Advanced Space,...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on the East coast of the US, at 1600 GMT on 5 October. The vehicle was bearing Crew Dragon which carried the Crew 5 human astronaut mission. It was the fifth operational crewed...
There are many space conferences every year, some specialising in military space hardware and applications, some aimed squarely at the commercial market, but when it comes to international space flight – and especially space agencies – there is perhaps only one...
