A SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 launch vehicle carried 60 Starlink satellites for SpaceX’s low Earth orbit constellation into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1930 GMT on 22 April. This brings the total number of Starlink satellites in orbit to 422. The satellites...
A consortium of Norwegian and Dutch research centres (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), the Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) and Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)) has selected satellite integrator NanoAvionics to...
Omnispace, the firm that received the assets and satellite ICO-F2 from the now-defunct ICO Global communications satellite firm, is planning to launch a constellation to track assets and devices from space via an Internet of Things (IoT) communications satellite...
Having had a launch setback with its new Long March 7A (CZ-7A) rocket in March, it looked unlikely that China would have another launch failure so soon. And yet, on 9 April 2020, an improved version of its venerable Long March 3B-G2 launch vehicle failed while...
The SpaceX Dragon CRS-20 reusable cargo spacecraft which was being operated on a cargo delivery and recovery mission as the final one of the original Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract for NASA, was unberthed from the International Space Station (ISS) Harmony...
On 24 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) put its long range space missions: the Cluster quartet, ExoMars TGO, Mars Express and Solar Orbiter, into Safe Mode “Hibernation” on 24 March to limit the number of personnel it would need at its operations centre. This was...
