Galactic Energy of China launched the third Ceres-1 (aka Gushenxing-1) solid rocket four-stage launch vehicle successfully with its lift off from Jiuquan launch site taking place at 0411 GMT on 9 August. The flight carried the Taijing-1 01 and Taijing-1 02 optical...
Northrop Grumman Corporation and launch vehicle manufacturer Firefly Aerospace have joined forces to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares 330 rocket, so it is no longer reliant on Russian-built RD-181 engines. The Antares 330 will use seven of...
Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Lt Nyota Uhura, communications officer to the USS Enterprise, in the Star Trek science fiction TV series in the late 1960s and later movie series has died at the age of 89. Nichols who at one time wanted to give up the role was...
The maiden flight of India’s latest rocket, the SSLV, has gone wrong. After an apparently successful launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, at 0348 GMT on 07 August, things began to unravel. The rocket’s upper stage and payloads (which appeared to...
China successfully launched a Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at 0308 GMT on 4 August. The mission carried three satellites, of which the primary one was the environmental monitoring unit, TECIS-1. TECIS-1 (Terrestrial Ecosystem...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, USA at 2308 GMT on 4 August. The vehicle was carrying Danuri (meaning “enjoy the Moon”) – better known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO). As South Korea’s first Lunar...
