At 0743 GMT on 2 February 2018, the CAST-built Zhangheng -1 (CSES) spacecraft was launched on a Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) from the Jiuquan launch site in China. Unlike some of China’s military missions which masquerade as scientific satellites, the 730 kg...
It has been revealed by the New York Times that the old “Project Blue Book” investigation into UFO sightings, which ended in 1969, was effectively restarted by the US Government in 2007. The new project, dubbed the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification...
The former Conservative MP and Minister for Science and Universities, David Willetts (now Lord Willetts), is rightly venerated by the UK Space community for his previous support while in office of the UK space industry. Nevertheless, the man who was once dubbed...
A long thin asteroid in the shape of a slowly rotating U-boat submarine has captured the imagination of the world’s scientific community after it passed close to Earth. Importantly the asteroid was not from the outer reaches of the solar system as most are, but...
NASA’s GRACE (Gravity-Recovery And Climate Experiment) mission has come to an end after well exceeding its original five year minimum design life following its launch in 2002. The two 487 kg GRACE spacecraft GRACE 1 & 2 which were built by Astrium (now...
NASA has announced that it has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the SENTINEL-6A mission. Launch is currently targeted for November 2020. The launch will use a SpaceX Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket...
