Elon Musk has announced via Twitter that his SpaceX rocket firm will fly a re-entry test vehicle as part of its BFR/BFS research. This project aims to produce an all-reusable rocket system capable of return not only from low Earth orbit (LEO), but also from the Moon...
Space News reports that Swedish start-up satellite operator Ovzon has made a launch booking on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy for an unnamed and yet-to-be-ordered communications satellite set for geostationary orbit. The launch will take place in Q4 2020 at the earliest. The...
During his stay for the IAC 2018 in Bremen, your correspondent’s German did improve slightly from his previously very limited vocab mainly learned from old war films. For example, saying “Achtung! Achtung! Spitfeuer!” is of limited use when a German train conductor is...
At 0222 GMT, 8 October 2018, an SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, on the West Coast of the USA, carrying the SAOCOM 1A, L-band, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The satellite was launched for CONAE...
NASA confirmed that the maiden flights of the Boeing Commercial crew systems’ CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon had been delayed again. Instead of their unmanned first launches occurring in January 2019 and late this year, respectively, the new schedule has the...
Space News reports that the Tokyo-based Japanese firm ispace has ordered two rideshare launch reservations on two SpaceX Falcon 9 launches for its 450 kg Hakuto-R orbiter and for its 1,400 kg Hakuto-R lander/rover missions in 2020 and 2021. Originally ispace took...
