Northrop Grumman has been awarded a two-satellite construction order as part of the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM).by Norway’s state-run firm Space Norway which is offering communications payloads on board the satellites for Norwegian Ministry of...
At 0430 GMT a 29 June a Rocket Lab Electron rocket (Electron KS) was launched from the Mahia Peninsula. Aboard were seven spacecraft which were put into a circa 460 x 452 km low Earth orbit inclined at 45 degrees relative to the Earth equator. The seventh flight of...
Via the Canadian Space Agency, the government of Canada, has ordered a new communications research satellite from the US firm Honeywell. The satellite is called QEYSsat – Quantum EncryYption and Science Satellite. As its name suggests, it will be used to test...
On 27 May 2019, NASA selected the Dragonfly eight-rotor drone craft as a New Horizons mission to land on and make flights between points on Saturn’s moon Titan. The mission is due to be launched in 2026, and, will arrive at Titan eight years later after making...
While this writer was both an organiser and participant at the Seradata Space Conference in London in June, he can just about stay neutral enough to write about the event. Following a slightly doom-laden introduction about the prospects for space insurance, by...
NASA has selected two new science missions as part of its Small Explorer (SMEX) programme to go forward to full production and which will be launched on the same rocket together. PUNCH – the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere mission will employ...
