Eutelsat 113 West A satellite has failed in orbit due to an undisclosed anomaly on 31 January 2024. The satellite was beyond its 15 year minimum design life and was no longer insured. The satellite which was soon to retire, was originally launched as Satmex-6 in May...
We’re keeping an eye on space news, so you don’t have to. Here’s our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of January from across the web: Upcoming Missions: New rockets due to fly in 2024 while another lunar landing...
The dust had barely settled from the fireworks and celebrations of the new year, before launch vehicles were being launched again. Keep up with the latest launches in January on this page, as we will regularly update our tracker: 1 January 2024...
Farah Ghouri finds out the status of the Lunar Pathfinder project, why the cubesat bubble is far from bursting, and how it will be “quite interesting” to discover life beyond Earth, from Sir Martin Sweeting, chief executive of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited...
NASA has announced a delay in its Artemis human missions to the Moon. Artemis II, originally scheduled for late 2024, has been postponed until no earlier than September 2025 after the agency cited safety concerns. The delay is attributed to the unexpectedly high...
The number of launches has broken the all-time record – again. This year there were 223 orbital launch attempts, which breaks last year’s record of 186 attempts. This continues the trend since 2019, and the general trend since 2005, of an ever-increasing number of...
