The development of the Vulcan Centaur rocket by the United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a long running saga. So there was no surprise when ULA CEO Tory Bruno announced that it has been delayed again, this time to the first quarter 2023. Again, the cause is delays to the...
A Proton M/Blok DM-03 launched the AngoSat 2 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazahkstan on 12 October at 1500 GMT. The launch was for the Angolan National Space Programme Office which owns the satellite. The Russian-built AngoSat 2 satellite...
The NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) experimental asteroid collision mission has been declared a major scientific success. This was after telescopes on Earth ascertained that the orbit of the 160-metre-wide asteroid, Dimorphos, had been significantly...
Since joining the Slingshot Aerospace empire we at Seradata have become more used to its salute/entreaty: “Ad Astra!”. So it seemed only right that, having missed it during the pandemic, we belatedly review the space exploration set movie under that name....
An Epsilon-2 Adv CLPS rocket was launched from Uchinoura, Kagoshima, Japan, at 0050 GMT on 12 October 2022, but failed to achieve orbit after its second stage was detected to have a fault during flight. When it became apparent that orbit would not be achieved, the...
After being in a slow spin for nearly a month, NASA’s CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) mission to the Moon was confirmed as being recovered to full three axis control on 7 October. Advanced Space,...
