The Chinese successfully launched a Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, Inner Mongolia, China at 0054 GMT on 15 October 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Yunhai-1 04, a Chinese meteorological satellite. Yunhai (meaning Cloud-Sea) is a...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, USA at 1419 GMT on 13 October 2023. The vehicle was carrying Psyche. Psyche is a spacecraft that will be specifically study the metallic asteroid of the same name: 16 Psyche. The...
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined communications satellite operator DISH Network US$150,000 for its failure to move its Echostar 7 satellite to either a fast re-entry or a graveyard orbit, in the first ever fine issued for space debris by the...
Contact has been lost with India’s new Vikram lunar lander and Pragyan lunar rover after they suffered a very cold two-week-long lunar night. Hopes of waking up the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover from their sleep mode are fading fast as attempts have, as yet, only...
The OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu has returned samples to Earth, fulfilling one of its main objectives seven years after it was launched in September 2016. After a two-year outbound journey, it went into orbit around Bennu in December 2018. The following...
TV footage of a pair of diminutive ‘alien’ bodies, uncovered from their casks, was shown at the Congress of Mexico during a hearing into the possibility of alien life. These ancient bodies, alleged to be non-Earthling creatures, were reportedly discovered in a diatom...
