Sentinel-1B, a key Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite of the ESA/EU Copernicus Earth observation and monitoring programme, has failed in orbit. On 23 December, its C-band SAR Interferometric radar mission for environmental monitoring was shut down after a power...
China attempted to launch a Kuaizhou-1A vehicle carrying the GeeSat 1A and 1B satellites at 0200 GMT on 15 December from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China. It was reported that the vehicle suffered abnormal performance during the launch, which failed. The...
The Astra Space Inc, Rocket 3.3 executed what has to be one of the strangest “dithering” lift-offs ever witnessed, before later having its flight eventually terminated downrange by the Range Safety Officer. The launch took place from the Kodiak Island...
In what was just the second Indian launch of the year, following on from a PSLV mission in February, a GSLV 2 rocket has suffered a launch failure destroying its satellite payload. The rocket lifted-off at 0013 GMT on 12 August from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre,...
After two explosive landing failures with the SpaceX Starship prototypes SN8 and SN9, SpaceX engineer and commentator John Inspruker tempted fate again on 3 February for the SN10 test flight by saying “Third time’s a charm.” At this point it was true that the SN10...
Following a successful maiden flight, the Hyperbola-1 (aka SQX-1 – Shian Quxian-1) launch vehicle suffered a launch failure on its second flight from Jiuquan in China. It lifted off successfully at 0815 GMT on 1 February 2021. However, the four-stage solid rocket went...
