When H G Wells imagined a species of space creatures called Selenites living under the lunar surface in his sci-fi novel The First Men in The Moon, it was still unknown if such spaces even existed. While lunar sink holes and pits have long been accepted as part of the...
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...
A launch of the PSLV-DL (flight number PSLV-C58) from Satish Dhawann Space Centre, Sriharikota, India took place at 0340 GMT on 1 January 2024 marking the first launch of the New Year. It was carrying XPoSAT – an X-ray astronomy satellite (official name is X-ray...
ESA has awarded a development contract to the UK arm of Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) to create key technologies to allow the TRUTHS (Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial- and Helio-Studies) satellite mission to measure solar radiation and the...
China’s launched the Haiyang 3A (aka HY3-01) ocean colour monitoring satellite at 0355 GMT on 16 November 2023. The rocket used was the CALT operated Long March 2C/3/YZ-1S (CZ-2C/3/YZ-1S) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 0355 GMT on 16 November...
