Construction Orders STAR.VISION Aerospace links with universities to build two 5 kg lunar mini-robots to launch with Chang’e 8 in 2028 Thales Alenia Space won an ESA development deal for the Venus EnVision mission and, separately, it secured a US$900 million...
Construction Orders As a follow-on to its Droid-01 testbed mission, Turion Space secured a US$32.6 million contract from the US military for three more space surveillance satellites Eutelsat ordered 100 partially upgraded OneWeb satellites from Airbus DS to...
SpaceX suffered a launch failure on the seventh test flight of Starship after an unexpected leak and the ensuing explosion led to its untimely end. Some commercial airlines were affected after concerns were raised about falling debris from the launch vehicle. SpaceX...
David Todd explains what made one Falcon 9 launch stand out from the masses Falcon 9 rocket launches have become so frequent that the vast majority are barely mentioned by the press these days. So, what was different about a standard SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5...
Of the 259 orbital launch attempts made in 2024 (four Starship launches were excluded because they were sub-orbital), eight failed to achieve their correct orbits. This gave a failure rate of 3 per cent – relatively low compared with the previous year when it was 6...
Europe’s small solid rocket, Vega C, has returned to flight for the first time in two years since it suffered a launch failure. The rocket took off from Kourou, French Guiana on 5 December at 2120 GMT. It carried the Sentinel 1C radar satellite, built by Thales...
