While the Starship second launch (IFT-2) from Boca Chica, Texas, on 18 November, gained all the headlines, earlier the same day a more mundane SpaceX launch took place from Pad 40 in Cape Canaveral at 0505 GMT. A Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 launched the Starlink Group 6-28...
Starship IFT-2’s test flight was a highly anticipated event as it marked the first follow-up to the launch vehicle’s maiden flight failure earlier in the year. There were long delays as SpaceX had to prove that the rocket was safe to fly. This was no easy task after...
Galactic energy has released the results of the investigation into the Ceres-1 launch failure in September which lost the Jilin 1 High Resolution 04B-01 (Gaofen 4B-01) imaging satellite resulting in an insurance loss of US$7.5 million. The lift off occurred at 0459...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket launched the Transporter-9 multi-satellite rideshare mission from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA, at 1849 GMT on11 November 2023. The reusable first stage, B1071 on its 12th flight, landed back on Californian land at...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket launched a pair of O3B mPOWER communications satellites into orbit as the fifth and sixth of a block of 11 high-throughput communications satellites for a new generation O3B Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation, ordered from Boeing....
Warning – this story is loaded with puns and might put you off your breakfast/lunch. During the 1960s and early 1970s, astronauts did not have a formal toilet, just not-nice-to-use faecal bags (US spelling “fecal” bags) and wet wipes, leading some to...
