NASA has announced the end of its DAWN mission to the asteroids. After being ordered, cancelled and then reinstated, DAWN was launched in 2007. And very successful it was too. Via the innovative use of solar-electric ion propulsion, the DAWN spacecraft visited the...
NASA have announced that after nine years in-orbit the Kepler space telescope has ceased its planet hunting mission on 30 October. Kepler has been in a low-fuel state for months however, it entered a “no-fuel-use” safe mode on 19 October, following a...
In between announcing tax cuts and making jokey puns in his budget address (which he just might get away with if either stimulate economic growth), Philip Hammond, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) also announced that he is banning any more...
At 0043 GMT, 29 October 2018, the CFOSAT mission was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, PRC, by an Chinese Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). CFOSAT (Chinese-French Oceanography...
Launching from the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, at 0408 GMT, 29 October 2018, an Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), H-2A202 rocket has carried the GOSAT-2 (IBUKI 2) greenhouse gas monitoring satellite and five co-payloads to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). GOSAT-2 is a...
The Chinese private launch company Landspace which is licenced by, but not run by, the Chinese state has had its first launch – and its first launch failure. The Zhuque-1 launch vehicle – better known as the ZQ-1 – was launched from the Jiuquan...
