In what is becoming a habit, NASA has been forced to admit that its plan to have crew aboard commercial launches of commercial spacecraft has been delayed again. Specifially, the uncrewed test launches of both SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and the Boeing CST-100 Starliner...
It has been reported by Reuters that Arianespace has lowered the launch price of its mainstay Ariane 5 launch vehicle, in response to fierce competition in the Asia-Pacific region from industry disruptor SpaceX. The two companies are competing for two satellite launch...
Until now it has been a mystery how Elon Musk planned to get his BFS/Starship upper stage back through its fiery re-entry intact from high-energy orbits and super-orbital return speeds from the Moon and Mars. This column speculated that he was planning to use some...
It was return time for the Dragon CRS-16 spacecraft which originally arrived and docked at the International Space Station on 16 December 2018. Having been unberthed from Harmony Nadir Port, the ISS robot arm released the Dragon CRS-16 spacecraft at 2333 GMT on 13...
A SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket successfully launched 10 Iridium next generation satellites from Vandeberg, California, on 11 January 2018, at 1531 GMT. The satellites carried were Iridium NEXT 68-77. The vehicle’s reusable first stage was successfully landed...
A Falcon 9 launch took place from the Cape Canavaral Air Station in Florida at 1351 GMT on 23 December 2018. The new GPS IIIA navigation satellite carried will take its place in the 20,000km Medium Earth Orbit constellation, replacing one of the early GPS IIR series...
