After a competitive tendering process, the US launch provider, United Launch Services (ULA) has been awarded a US$354,811,947 firm-fixed-price contract for launch services to deliver the AFSPC-8 and AFSPC-12 satellites to their intended orbit. This contract provides...
NASA’s independent report into the Falcon 9 launch failure, which lost Dragon CRS-7 and eight small Flock/Dove satellites on 28 June 2015, has finally been released. It specifically criticises a SpaceX design error – and by implication its chief designer: Elon Musk....
The Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite was successfully launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral at 0533 GMT on 6 March. The launch used a Falcon 9V1.2 FT Block 4 rocket, which was equipped with landing legs and steering grid fins so that its first stage could...
A much-delayed Falcon 9V1.2 FT Block 3 launch, carrying the Astrium (now Airbus DS) built 1,341kg Paz Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, finally took place at 1417 GMT on 22 February, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It was launched into a near...
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...
