My dad was a firefighter, just not the kind that puts out flames in buildings. Instead, he fought fires in forests, from the air. He ‘bombed’ fires with water and retardant, to save communities and wildlife. His crew used radar to track where lightning was striking,...
NASA has cancelled its VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project 14 months before the golf-cart sized rover, which has already been completed, was set to launch. The news, announced in a teleconference on 17 July, sent shockwaves around the space...
There were a number of launch and spacecraft orders ranging from small to big this month. Military launch orders & bookings Both ULA and SpaceX were smiling as they both got a share of US$1.8 billion set of National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 launch...
A routine launch of a Falcon 9 by SpaceX turned into anything but for the industry behemoth. At 0235 GMT on 12 July a Falcon 9 v1.2FT Block 5 rocket, carrying Starlink Group 9-3, rose from its launch pad at Vandenberg, California, US. The Starlinks onboard were a set...
Ariane 6, Europe’s new rocket, has finally been launched from Kourou, French Guiana. The journey to this milestone has been far from smooth. The launch vehicle has been the target of much criticism aimed at its extended development time, its ‘out of date’ non-reusable...
Labour won the UK general election by a landslide in terms of the number of seats secured, however its share of the votes cast on 4 July – on a noticeably low turnout – was just 34 per cent. So, it seems that while most of the electorate wanted the incumbent...
