Arabsat 6A, a 6,460kg communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin, was sent safely on its way by a Falcon Heavy launch and injected into a 89,808 x 321km super-synchronous transfer orbit. The launch took place from the Kennedy Space Centre, near Cape Canaveral,...
While it might be sans its “pointy” nose cone after it fell off and was damaged in windy weather, the Starhopper test rocket has nevertheless begun to make static firings and short tethered hops at its Boca Chica test site in Texas. This was announced...
The Trump Administration has signalled a change of space policy on a human return to the Moon. Addressing the National Space Council in Huntsville, Alabama, and hinting that the USA was in effect in a race with China, US Vice President Mike Pence called for a human...
Jules Verne in his 19th century sci-fi books From Earth to the Moon and is sequel Around the Moon, had the designers of “Columbiad” super cannon wondering from which US state the cannon-launched shell-like spacecraft would be launched from. The finalists...
A Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 launch vehicle successfully launched the first unmanned test of the Dragon 2 crew capsule – called DM-1 – at 0749 GMT on 2 March. The launch took place from Kennedy Space Center, near Cape Cape Canaveral in Florida. The initial orbit achieved...
While the 4,100kg PSN-6 communications satellite for Indonesia’s PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) was the SpaceX Falcon 9’s main payload, it was one of its co-payloads that got all the headlines. The launch took place successfully at 0145 GMT on 22 February, on the...
