Lord David Willetts has been formally appointed as Chairman of the UK Space Agency by the UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng. The former MP and government minister will oversee the work of the agency, led by CEO Dr Paul Bate, as it attempts to pursue the goal of the...
The Italian Space Agency (ASI) has contracted with SpaceX to conduct a mission at short notice to ensure a civilian/military SAR satellite is launched this year. The satellite in question is the second COSMO SkyMed Second Generation unit known as CSG-2. This mission...
The United Kingdom’s space conference held every two years was a more muted affair this year – pun intended – as it has been forced online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless there were some significant announcements to be had. While the...
Sutherland Spaceport in Scotland has survived an attempt by Danish billionaire Anders Povlsen and his company Wildland Ltd to halt development of one of the UK’s potential spaceport sites. A ruling published on 20 August by the Scottish Court of Session found against...
Following a troubled eight-day voyage the Nauka module has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), the first Russian module to do so in 11 years. Docking occurred at 1329 GMT on 29 July, according to on-board telemetry. The module approached...
Once a promising start-up in the fields of space transportation and in-orbit servicing, Momentus Space has suffered a largely self-inflicted ‘resistance to progress’ in the past few months. However, the announcement on 13 July that the US Securities and Exchange...
