After suffering a few days of high winds which delayed the launch, a Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched four small satellites to low Earth orbit at 1212 GMT from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. The satellites were the BlackSky Global-4, BRO-1, Pearl White 1 and...
At 0411 GMT on 17 August, the first launch of the four soild stage Jielong 1 (Smart Dragon SD-1) took place from its mobile launch placed at the Jiuquan launch site in Inner Mongolia, China. The launch was operated by its constructor, the China Rocket Co Ltd, which is...
The complicated multi-parachute landing system for the European Space Agency’s ExoMars landing mission in 2020 is under scrutiny after it failed a second test. The test on 5 August, of the large 35 m diameter subsonic main parachute was deemed a failure. It...
Launch arranger/broker Innovative Space Logistics (ISL) and UK-based orbital launch services provider Orbex has signed a wide-ranging technical Cooperation Agreement at the Small Satellites Conference in Logan, Utah. As part of the agreement, ISL will also procure...
The unmanned freighter spacecraft Cygnus NG-11 (Roger Chaffee) was unberthed from the International Space Station’s (ISS) Unity nadir port at 1330 GMT by the station’s robotic arm (along with Aerocubes10A and 10B) it was fully released at 1615 GMT on 6 August...
The cause of the forced retirement of Intelsat 29e has been found and it was not what was originally thought. Intelsat 29e suffered a power failure and loss of control of the satellite on 7 April due to what was assumed to be a propellant leak or thruster issue....
