One of Russia’s keynote scientific missions has come to a likely premature end. Lomonosov, a spacecraft designed to investigate gamma-rays and other high energy radiation bursts, has suffered a major fault in its data transmission (assumed telemetry) system. As a...
At 0943 GMT on 29 June, a previously flown SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted-off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and for its First stage for the second time. The First stage flew for the first time in April carrying the NASA TESS telescope. This time it carried...
Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) has received an order for two differing Earth observation spacecraft from the GISTDA (Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency) – part of the Ministry of Science and Technology, of the Government of Thailand....
Having lost their first satellite Angosat-1 shortly after launch last year, in May the Angolan National Space Programme Management Office (GGPEN) formally announced the order of a YAMAL USP (VICTORIA) bus/platform replacement from RSC Energia. The finance for the...
The decision to allow a pay-TV service to have a monopoly of some World Cup matches via the Optus communications satellites has come back to bite the Australian government. Apart from being unpopular in the first place – most nations have all the matches on...
A Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat M rocket was launched from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia at 2146 GMT on 16 June 2018. The Glonass M-59 satellite aboard, now dubbed Cosmos 2527 under the military designation system, was a Glonass navigation satellite which fits into...
