Two firms at different points along the process of developing an orbital rocket have outlined plans for their next launches. Astra Space, USA, intends another orbital attempt in late-October of its Astra 3 rocket. Its previous mission carrying a instrumented payload...
A sub-orbital launch attempt of the Hapith 1 (HP1) rocket ended in failure at 0639 GMT on 16 September. During ignition and initial lift off the vehicle suffered an internal fault causing it to catch alight. The rocket then fell onto the starboard side of the pad. The...
The air-dropped suborbital launch of SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity carrying two crew plus four company trial passengers, including Virgin Galactic’s founder Sir Richard Branson, suffered a previously undisclosed trajectory anomaly involving a deviation from its air traffic...
Blue Origin conducted its New Shepard-17 (NS-17) suborbital mission carrying 18 experiments for commercial and institutional customers inside the capsule. Of the payloads 11 were NASA-supported, additionally it also carried an art installation on the exterior of the...
Fresh from the success of its first air-launched “passenger” suborbital SpaceShipTwo test flight to the edge of space on 11 July, Virgin Galactic has just announced that it is reopening its ticket facility and with increased ticket prices. While would-be...
As planned, Blue Origin’s New Shepard made its first crewed launch on 20 July, the 52nd anniversary of Apollo 11’s lunar landing. According to the company, Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen “officially became astronauts when they passed the Kármán...
