The US Space Force successfully recovered its X-37B on the Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6) mission, after it deorbited and landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility at 1022 GMT on 12 November after a mission lasting 908 days. OTV-6 was the first...
Prospective French in-space transportation company, Exotrail, has signed an agreement with upcoming German launch provider Isar Aerospace. The contract covers several launches to low Earth (LEO) and geostationary transfer orbits (GTO) on Isar’s in-development...
An Antares 230+ rocket operated by Northrop Grumman lifted off from the Wallops Island launch site in Virginia, USA, at 1032 GMT on 7 November. On board was a Cygnus NG-18 freighter spacecraft headed for the International Space Station (ISS) on a cargo mission for...
Rocket Lab successfully launched an Electron KS rocket from Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 1727 GMT on 04 November 2022. The Electron was carrying MATS, a Swedish research satellite, studying waves in Earth’s atmosphere. The flight was dubbed “Catch me if you...
“Stealth” as a concept has been around since the late 1970s when the US military realised that via the use of certain shapes and radar absorbent materials, you could cut an aircraft’s radar return by over 90 per cent. This meant that your...
Hotbird 13G, the sister communications satellite to Hotbird 13F, has been successfully launched by a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket flying out of Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch took place at 0522 GMT on 3 November 2022. The Eurostar NEO bus spacecraft was built by...
