We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we’re keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don’t have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of April (space orders can also be found...
The first stage of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket blew up after separation, damaging the second stage and setting off a chain of events that meant Alpha narrowly missed out on achieving orbit. The vehicle lifted off on flight FLTA006 “Message in a Booster” at 1337...
Phoenix 1, a re-entry capsule on board the Bandwagon 3 rideshare mission, returned to Earth at a steeper angle than originally intended, after SpaceX adjusted the mission plans for a fellow payload less than two months before the launch. The payload, developed by...
The ‘stranded’ pair of NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, finally returned to Earth on 18 March bringing an end to their extended stay on the International Space Station (ISS). The venture was supposed to last just eight days but ended up exceeding nine...
UtilitySat, one of four small communications satellites, launched for Astranis, has failed on its way to its planned geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) operational location, according to industry officials, reported first by Space Intel Report. The craft was launched by...
Rockets have carried humans around the world, mainly in low Earth orbits (LEO), and even, on occasion, to the Moon and back. Yet orbits over the polar regions of the Earth remained unexplored by peopled spacecraft. That was until April when SpaceX launched Fram-2, the...
