Guest writer Morten Pahle gives his views about Elon Musk’s recent stunt on the first flight of the Falcon Heavy and wonders if there is not more to come? The maiden launch of the Falcon Heavy (aka Falcon 9 Heavy) was a great achievement and has hopefully...
Kim Campbell, the former Canadian Prime Minister, has moaned about the double standards involving male and female presenters on television. In doing so via a Tweet, she used the danger word “gravitas”. “I am struck by how many women on television news wear sleeveless...
The Falcon Heavy rocket has made its entrance on the world stage – and a spectacular one at that. It lifted off at 2045 GMT from the former Saturn V launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre, near Cape Canaveral in Florida. In doing so, it disproved its detractors by...
On 31 January 2017, a Falcon 9 launch successfully carried GovSat-1 (SES-16) spacecraft into orbit. The launch took place at 2125 GMT from SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral launch pad which was recently refurbished following a prelaunch test explosion. The GovSat-1...
At 0100 GMT the mysterious ZUMA payload was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force station (CCAFS) by a Falcon 9v1.2R rocket. The launch took the payload, reportedly owned by the US Government and built by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, to low Earth orbit. There is...
The Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter – KPLO – has been given a launch on a Falcon 9. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) selected SpaceX to launch the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) in 2020. In a separate development, the CHEOPS...
