The Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter – KPLO – has been given a launch on a Falcon 9. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) selected SpaceX to launch the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) in 2020. In a separate development, the CHEOPS...
It is always nice when a scientific type also gets honoured amongst all the pop and film stars, military types, charity workers, a few lollipop ladies…and, of course, some crawling politicians. The British chemist and Britain’s first astronaut Dr Helen...
At 0727 GMT on 17 December a Soyuz FG was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The rocket’s payload, the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft with Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, US astronaut Scott Tingle and Japanese astronaut, Norishige...
Soyuz MS-05 undocked from the Rassvet module of the International Space Station (ISS) carrying Russian Cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky, US Astronaut Randy Bresnik and ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli at 0541 GMT on 14 December. The spacecraft then conducted its de-orbit engine...
The launch failure on 28 November of the Soyuz 2-1B Fregat, which destroyed 19 satellites including the Meteor 2M-1 weather satellite, was caused by a software design fault related to the rocket’s operation from its new launch site at Vostochny Cosmodrome, in Far...
While pressurised sealed vessels like submarines have an obvious parallel in manned spacecraft.- there are also some elements of their technology which are actually shared between vessels flying in orbit and those under the sea. An example of one of these is the...
