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...
Rockets-to-electric cars billionaire Elon Musk continued to mesmerise during September in his role as chief designer and overall boss of SpaceX. This was despite suffering much criticism and bad press over his ill-judged Twitter declarations – actions he would...
SpaceX has announced that it is to take human space travellers around the Moon in 2023. The original plan was to send two passengers on a Falcon 9 Heavy-launched dragon spacecraft, but this was dropped after SpaceX decided to concentrate on the BFR (now more politely...
