With mere seconds left before its planned lift-off from the Tanegashima launch site, Japan aborted the maiden flight of its new expendable H3 rocket. The H3 flight, which used the H3-22S variant, was scheduled to launch at 0137:55 GMT on 17 February. The main stage’s...
A radiator leak of coolant on board the Soyuz MS-22 while it was attached to the International Space Station (ISS) in December 2022 was just the start of problems. Not only was a Cosmonaut spacewalk postponed, but an empty Soyuz spacecraft was even requested to be...
Launch provider Virgin Orbit has disclosed the probable cause of the failure that destroyed the high-profile “Start Me Up” launch and its nine small payloads: a dislodged fuel filter. The Cosmic Girl carrier aircraft took off for the first orbital attempt from the UK...
An investigation by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) into the failure of the maiden flight of its latest rocket, the SSLV, has revealed that an exceptional shock during separation compromised the guidance system. The SSLV-D1 launch seemed to go well with...
SpaceNews reports (quoting the South China Morning Post) that the Zhurong 1 Mars rover as part of the Tianwen 1 mission for China has failed to make contact in December as planned after its period of hibernation during the Northern Hemisphere Martian winter since 18...
The APT Satellite Holdings-owned APSTAR 6E HTS communications satellite, which was placed into an initial orbit by a Chinese Long March 2C/3 (CZ-2C/3) rocket on 12 January, has reportedly run into problems. The launch, from the Xichang site, was unusual in that it...
