At SATELLITE 2020 in Washington D.C., Northrop Grumman’s Joseph Anderson talked about the company’s planned second in-orbit servicing mission. This follows the recent successful docking of MEV-1 (Mission Extension Vehicle) and its target Intelsat 901 in...
The much proclaimed Monday keynote at SATELLITE 2020, featured SpaceX founder Elon Musk. He spoke about the future of his projects at SpaceX, namely the Starlink constellation, and the in-development Starship, super-heavy, manned, launch vehicle. When speaking about...
A Long March 3B/G3 (CZ-3B/G3) rocket successfully lifted off from its launch pad at the Xichang launch site in China at 1155 GMT on 10 March 2020. Aboard was a Beidou navigation satellite for the constellation that its the Chinese equivalent of GPS. The Beidou-3 G2Q...
Having licked its wounds over past investment failures – the ending of the XS-1 reusable rocket programme after Boeing’s unilateral withdrawal being the most recent example – US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is determined to pick more proven...
The Dragon CRS-20 cargo spacecraft was successfully launched into orbit on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in a night launch from Cape Canaveral at 0450 GMT on 7 March 2020. The night time launch (1150 pm on 6 March local time)...
The UK-based start-up satellite operator Sen has ordered five 16U-CubeSats from NanoAvionics bus manufacturer. The satellites will integrate a high resolution video imager which will provide a Earth observation service called “EarthTV”. The imaging payload...
