The final flight in 1971 of Black Arrow, a British satellite carrier rocket developed in the 1960s, remains the first and only successful orbital launch to be conducted by the UK. Even then Black Arrow took off from Australian soil. The British space sector has waited...
While the ELSa-D docking test mission is not going to plan in orbit due to thruster issues, its owner/developer Astroscale did have something to smile about. It has received US$16 milion (€15 million) in funding from the European Space Agency (ESA) to demonstrate an...
A French start-up Gama has contracted NanoAvionics to build its first satellite, GAMA ALPHA, a solar sail demonstration mission. The announcement released on 26 May outlines that it will be based on NanoAvionics’ 6U CubeSat platform and is planned to launch in...
While its competitors seem determined to add ever more numbers to their proposed or under construction satellite constellations, satellite operator Telesat has bucked the trend and reduced the size of its planned Telesat Lightspeed ensemble. Its original plan was to...
On its launch from the Onenui Station on Mahia peninsula, New Zealand on 2 May 2022 an Electron KS rocket successfully put 34 small satellites into orbit on a rideshare mission. The rocket’s payload included 24 SpaceBee store/forward Internet of Things (IoT)...
During the Satellite 2022 conference we were provided with plans for this year from some American launch providers. Rocket Lab The American small launch provider Rocket Lab – who primarily launches out of New Zealand – announced that it hopes to...
