The 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2019) was held in the US Capital Washington DC during October. One advantage of the event being held in a “mainline” capital city – rather than the much smaller city of Bremen last year and Adelaide the...
The Franco-US Jason-2 oceanography spacecraft which was operated by the French Space Agency CNES has now been retired from scientific operations, having exceeded its minimum three-year design life by over eight years. Launched in June 2008, the Jason-2 spacecraft...
Having received a NASA CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) contract in May worth US$77 million to carry up five payloads to the lunar surface, the Nova-C commercial lunar lander’s operator has moved quickly to secure its passage to the Moon. It has signed...
The UK Space Conference 2019 had its fair share of current players in the space market very much on display. However, there were other companies there who were looking to break into the space market and which could be major players in the future. Here are two that...
Controllers at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) were licking their wounds after its unmanned landing attempt on the Moon ended in failure – and with India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, looking on. The Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter/Vikram Lander/Pragram Rover...
The complicated multi-parachute landing system for the European Space Agency’s ExoMars landing mission in 2020 is under scrutiny after it failed a second test. The test on 5 August, of the large 35 m diameter subsonic main parachute was deemed a failure. It...
