In what has come to be a routine for SpaceX at 0235 GMT on 12 July 2024 a Falcon 9 v1.2FT Block 5 rocket rose from its launch pad at Vandenberg, California USA. It was carrying Starlink Group 9-3, a set of 20 v2 Mini communications satellites, 13 of which had...
Criticised for its very long development time, its ‘out of date’ non-reusable technology, and for its still too high launch price, nevertheless, Ariane 6, Europe’s new launch vehicle, has been finally launched from the Kourou, French Guiana launch...
Labour won the UK General Election on 4 July by a landslide in terms of seat wins, however its voter percentage of a very low turnout election was just 34 per cent. From these results it can be deduced that most of the electorate wanted the incumbent right-of-centre...
There were a number of launch and spacecraft orders ranging from small to big this month. The story that grabbed headlines was NASA’s construction order to SpaceX for a craft to deorbit the ISS in 2030 or soon after. See our story here. Of the more mainstream...
You need to see it, to be it On a recent Saturday at an aircraft hangar on a Royal Navy airbase in Cornwall, UK was filled to the rafters with hundreds of young girls. These girls were coding, launching rockets, building robots, using flight simulators and engineering...
