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...
It was revealed by Space News on 18 October, that the two agencies involved in the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) project, the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Taiwanese Ministry of...
On 10 October, Moon Express, a company planning to make commercial landing missions on the Moon, formally tied up with commercial opportunities provider NanoRacks, which will market the service for them. Moon Express plans to start its missions – beginning with a...
The atmosphere-monitoring satellite for Europe’s Copernicus programme, Sentinel-5P, was launched on a Rockot launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 0927 GMT on 13 October 2017. The flight of the soon-to-be-retired Rockot was probably its...
Space debris and its growing potential to impact on orbiting satellites and spacecraft is a hot topic of which even the general public is now aware. Space scientists have warned that it is a problem, and one that is getting worse. But just how bad is it and how bad...
It is congratulations to the team of scientists who successfully proved Einstein’s hypothesis that gravity waves would exist by actually detecting them. The winners were Rainer Weiss of MIT who received half of the financial element of the prize and Barry Barish...
