SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA at 0648 GMT on 15 April 2023. The rocket launched the Transporter 7 mission which comprised one main payload the 800 kg Turkish imaging spacecraft IMECE, and 46 small...
Northrop Grumman is developing a geostationary communications satellite in a bid for a military contract worth US$2.4 billion. The aerospace and defence giant will have to compete with Boeing to develop Protected Tactical Satcom (PTS) prototype satellites. Both...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 successully launched the Intelsat IS-40e/TEMPO satellite into its planned geosynchronous transfer orbit via parking orbit at 0430 GMT on 7 April from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The spacecraft will later stabilise itself into a circular...
The space transportation/delivery into orbit firm D-Orbit has signed a €26-Million Contract with ESA for IRIDE Satellite Observation Program to create a new Earth observation constellation which will be launched from 2025 that will monitor critical infrastructure, air...
Space Pioneer, a private Chinese space launch provider, successfully sent the new three-stage Tianlong-2 rocket on its maiden flight to orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 0948 GMT on 2 April. The rocket uses LOX/kerosene as its propellants. The...
While landings on the Moon have been done before and are now regarded as a known technology, something not previously catered for is communications to the lunar far side. For example, the Apollo and Surveyor lunar landing programmes all touched down on the Earth...
