NASA has formally awarded “Tipping Point” contracts worth a total of US$370 million to 14 firms to demonstrate new technologies for lunar and Mars exploration. Possibly due to criticism that cryogenic storage and refueling technology would not be ready to make a human...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 vehicle carrying 60 Starlink satellites from the ex-Space Shuttle Pad 39A leased from NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA at 1225 GMT on 18 October. The launch was the 14th Falcon 9 launch of Starlink satelites and...
SpaceX supremo and founder Elon Musk took time out from his Tesla automotive activities to lay out his plans for the Starship via a web interview at the Mars Society’s online conference on 16 October. Musk led off by saying that for long-term, long-range human...
According to spaceflightnow.com the US Space Force on behalf of the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has booked a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch to take place from the Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida on 25 October or soon afterwards. The launch had not been...
Launching at 1129 GMT on 6 October from Cape Canaveral, USA, a SpaceX mission carrying the 12th operational batch of 60 Starlink satellites reached LEO. The mission utilised the company’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle, and made use of a first-stage for the third time....
The Space Development Agency (SDA), USA, on 5 October announced it had awarded satellite development contracts to two companies. The contracts cover the inaugural, “Tranche 0”, satellites for a planned missile warning and tracking constellation. US...
