At the northernmost edges of the UK lies Unst, one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands. The quiet island off the Northeast of the Scottish Mainland only has a population of 632. And yet, it will soon be home to a main plank of the UK space effort, the SaxaVord...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA, at 1739 GMT on 22 July. The vehicle was carrying 46 Starlinks of Group 3-2 which were being placed into the third...
Cargo spacecraft Tianzhou 3 successfully undocked from the Chinese Space Station’s forward port on 17 July 2022 at 0259 GMT. According to Chinese space authorities, Tianzhou 3 “will re-enter under ground control at an opportune time”. The re-supply...
The US Space Development agency has awarded two contracts to build 28 infra-red wide-field-of-view tracking satellites for its new Tracking Layer constellation, aimed at detecting and tracking ballistic and manoeuvring hypersonic missile flights. The Tracking Layer...
The US defence firm Raytheon which is moving away from what it was most famous for air launched missiles – especially the long-standing AIM-9 Sidewinder family – is now fully engaged in space. During the Farnborough International Airshow 2022, it was...
China launched a Long March 2C/3 (CZ-2C/3) vehicle from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, China at 2257 GMT on 15 July 2022. The vehicle carried SuperView Neo 2-01 and 2-02 (aka Siwei Gaojing 3 and 4), a pair of Earth observation satellites, to a Sun-Synchronous low...
