India’s Mars probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), has ceased to function over eight years after its launch on 5 November 2013, according to recent reports. It is also over seven years since its post-launch design life, of 1.5 years, expired. Communications...
Blue Origin’s New Shepard uncrewed suborbital vehicle suffered a failure on its booster rocket just one minute after its launch on 12 September. New Shepard lifted off normally at 14:27 GMT from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas. The company has not...
Global satellite operator Intelsat revealed, on 18 August, that it had lost control of its direct broadcast satellite Galaxy 15, blaming geomagnetic storms. It now looks like the operator has also lost control of the satellite payload which shut itself down...
The maiden flight of India’s latest rocket, the SSLV, has gone wrong. After an apparently successful launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, at 0348 GMT on 07 August, things began to unravel. The rocket’s upper stage and payloads (which appeared to...
According to the success/failure ratio on the Seradata SpaceTrak database, the Astra Rocket 3 series cannot be called a reliable launch vehicle. The Astra Rocket 3 series failed five times out of seven attempts, while the latest version failed three out of five times....
The Momentus Space Vigoride-3 (VR-3) satellite delivery spacecraft has reportedly failed to release seven of its nine satellite payloads. This follows a serious power shortfall since its launch on the Falcon 9 Transporter-5 flight on 25 May. The cause is believed to...
