While geopolitical events are now seriously effecting US-Russian relations and even Russo-Kazakh ones, it was still business as normal when it comes to crewed launches at the Baikonour Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. At 1354 GMT on 21 September 2022 a Soyuz...
NASA has selected Axiom Space to deliver a moonwalking-capable spacesuit for the planned Artemis III human landing mission. This will land astronauts onto the surface of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. The award – the first one under a competitive...
Having had its previous launch attempt on 29 August scrubbed by an engine temperature sensor issue, a second attempt to launch the giant SLS rocket carrying the Orion capsule on an uncrewed Artemis I test flight was delayed again on 3 September. This time it was a...
The much awaited first flight of the US SLS (Space Launch System) launch vehicle carrying the NASA Artemis I test flight of the uncrewed Orion spacecraft (plus 10 cubesat spacecraft) around the Moon has had to wait. An initially suspected hydrogen bleed issue meant...
Every August – the silly season when hard news is hard to come by – this column does its bit to help out with an analysis of the runners and riders in the “Great Space Race”. We rate space nations’ space programmes in the form of bookmaker’s odds, according to which...
NASA has announced that its Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will join the SPHEREx satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 flight, scheduled to launch in April 2025. NASA’s PUNCH missions consists of four smallsats to measure the outer part...
