A test to qualify a new carbon-carbon material in the nozzle on the Vega-C Zefiro-40 second stage solid rocket engine after it was indicated as the source of a launch failure in December 2022 has itself ended in failure – but not of the nozzle. While the nozzle...
In a leadership change, Managing Director Tim Fuller has left Seradata to go into semi-retirement (he will continue as a consultant with us). Tim founded Seradata after buying the space department and, importantly, its SpaceTrak spaceflight database, from the then...
The longstanding rumours about a possible merger between satellite operators Intelsat and SES, to create an entity valued at over US$10 billion, have finally been put to rest after Intelsat reportedly walked away from the discussions. Luxembourg-based SES confirmed...
A Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat was launched from Vostochny launch site in Far Eastern Russia on 26 June 2023. Aboard was the VNIIEM-built 3.25 metric ton Meteor M2-3, a phased-arraw radar-equipped weather satellite heading for a 800 km sun-synchronous low Earth orbit, as the...
SpaceX is making a number of modifications to its SuperHeavy/Starship combination and to the launch pad ahead of its next flight, following its pre-staging maiden launch failure due to attitude control and engine loss issues. Elon Musk, founder, CEO and Chief...
Following the success of its Mars probe “Hope”, the UAE Space Agency has announced a plan to launch a probe to the asteroid belt by 2028. Known as the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA), from 2030 onwards it will study six asteroids on its way to a final one,...
