SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 1624 GMT on 1 April 2022 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), Florida. The mission, which is the fourth of its kind, is SpaceX’s latest rideshare mission aimed at carrying more satellites at lower...
At 1241 GMT on 2 April 2022, an Electron KS rocket was successfully launched from the Onenui luanch station in the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand. The launch carried a pair of BlackSky Global satellites initially into a an elliptical transfer orbit. After a second...
While Roscosmos rather cruelly joked that it might leave him in space after US protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the end NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, a former US Army Colonel, returned to Earth on board the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft on 30 March 2021....
China successfully Launched a Long March 11 (CZ-11) launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 0229 GMT on 30 March. The rocket was carrying three spacecraft, Tianping 2A, 2B and 2C, which will be used for radar calibration.
Noted space industry entrepreneur Greg Wyler (whose track record in this field includes founding the O3b and OneWeb projects) has secured seed funding of US$50 million for his next constellation aimed at bridging the digital divide. E-Space, of which Wyler is Founder...
China successfully launched a 50 m long Long March 6A (CZ-6A) launch vehicle built by SAST from Taiyuan launch site in China at 0950 GMT on 29 March 2022. The launch was the maiden flight of the launch vehicle which uses a two YF-100 engine core and single YF-100...
