Every August – the silly season when hard news is hard to come by – this column does its bit to help out with an analysis of the runners and riders in the “Great Space Race”. We rate space nations’ space programmes in the form of bookmaker’s odds, according to which...
Synspective Inc., Japan, has announced that its first commercial unit, known as StriX-1, is expected to be launched in September. The SAR satellite will be the third such for the company, which refers to the two preceding units – StriX-ALPHA and -BETA – as...
SpaceX successfully launched 46 Starlink satellites onboard a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 2140 GMT on 12 August. The satellites are identified as Group 3-3, part of SapceX’s Starlink LEO communications constellation. The spacecraft...
Astrocast has ordered the launch of 20 nanosatellites from Italian new-space company D-Orbit. Through multiple missions over the course of three years, D-Orbit will arrange the launch of the Swiss company’s nanosatellites aboard the ION Satellite Carrier,...
After a slight delay due to upper-level winds in the vicinity of the launch site, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launched 52 Starlink satellites on 10 August at 0214 GMT from the Kennedy Space Center – Eastern Test Range. Less than 9 minutes after the launch, first...
China launched a Long March 6 (CZ-6) rocket at 0450 GMT on 10 August from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The rocket carried 16 satellites built by Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd., into a sun-synchronous, low Earth orbit. They will form part of its...
