While Hollywood has long flagged the dangers of asteroid and comet impact via its science fictional disaster movies Meteor (1979), Deep Impact (1998) and Armageddon (1998), real life space seemed to have no solution to the threat. Now NASA, in conjunction with John...
Arabsat 6A, a 6,460kg communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin, was sent safely on its way by a Falcon Heavy launch and injected into a 89,808 x 321km super-synchronous transfer orbit. The launch took place from the Kennedy Space Centre, near Cape Canaveral,...
The Israeli privately-financed SpaceIL Beresheet (B’reshit) unmanned lunar landing probe has crashed on the Moon following a complication that caused its landing engine to be cut off at a key moment. Having hitched a paid-for ride on a Falcon 9 launch on 22 February,...
Relativity Space Inc’s yet to fly the 3D printing technology launch vehicle Terran-1 has been awarded its first launch booking for multiple launches for the Canadian operator Telesat’s LEO broadband constellation. Terran 1 is designed to be built in only...
While start-up satellite firm Sky and Space Global has a formal launch contract with Virgin Orbit and an exploratory Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) contracts with China’s CGWIC, it has just signed a new MoU with Arianespace to launch 88 satellites on...
Intelsat 29e appeared suffered a propellant leak on 7 April 2019 after the spacecraft was lost Earth lock and fell into a tumble and had to put itself into a protective safe mode. Update on 9 August: The cause was found to be a power loss rather than a fuel leak....
