Russian space agency Roscosmos has released its preliminary report about the crash of Luna 25 onto the surface of the Moon. Luna 25, having achieved lunar orbit, was executing a manoeuvre on 19 August to lower this to an elliptical 110 x 16 km “pre-landing orbit” in...
Rocket Lab launched Electron KS from Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 0655 GMT on 19 September. The Electron was carrying the Acadia 2 (aka Capella-12) radar Earth observation satellite from Capella Space. The rocket’s first stage successfully separated (not...
Although its Super Heavy/Starship system is full stacked and ready for refuelling at the Boca Chica launch site in Texas, SpaceX has yet to get permission from the US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) to make its second orbital flight attempt. After completing its...
As if the increasing likelihood of a total insurance loss claim for the Viasat-3 Americas satellite was not enough, Viasat has received more bad news. Inmarsat, its newly acquired subsidiary, has found itself in the unenviable position of making an insurance claim for...
An erroneous command sent to the venerable Voyager 2 spacecraft, now at the outer reaches of the solar system, inadvertently made the spacecraft move so that it tilted its antenna to point two degrees away from Earth. Communications were lost with the spacecraft –...
Arcturus suffers unrelated solar array drive troubles GEO satellite operator Viasat Inc has finally confirmed that its recently launched Viasat-3 Americas High Throughput Ka-band communications satellite has suffered a serious blow. The satellite failed to properly...
