Globalstar, one of the original LEO constellation operators, will be used by Apple to allow iPhone users to send emergency messages via satellite from remote locations. The partnership, which makes Apple Globalstar’s biggest customer, was made public shortly after an...
NASA has selected Axiom Space to deliver a moonwalking-capable spacesuit for the planned Artemis III human landing mission. This will land astronauts onto the surface of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. The award – the first one under a competitive...
Details are sketchy but during late August, China mounted a launch of its suborbital/fractional orbital spaceplane from the Jiuquan launch site in the Gobi Desert. According to Space News (Andrew Jones) the flight took place on 26 August. This would make the second...
Northrop Grumman Corporation and launch vehicle manufacturer Firefly Aerospace have joined forces to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares 330 rocket, so it is no longer reliant on Russian-built RD-181 engines. The Antares 330 will use seven of...
The maiden flight of India’s latest rocket, the SSLV, has gone wrong. After an apparently successful launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, at 0348 GMT on 07 August, things began to unravel. The rocket’s upper stage and payloads (which appeared to...
The US defence firm Raytheon which is moving away from what it was most famous for air launched missiles – especially the long-standing AIM-9 Sidewinder family – is now fully engaged in space. During the Farnborough International Airshow 2022, it was...
