We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we’re keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don’t have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of November (space orders can be found in...
Every year Seradata Space Intelligence reports on the ‘Great Space Race’ – that is, which nation will be next to set foot on the Moon and which will be first to reach the surface of Mars. David Todd analyses the odds and picks his runners and riders from the main...
On 12 September I was asked to do an interview with Al Jazeera English covering the Polaris Dawn spacewalk. What was meant to be a 5-minute overview of what the mission meant to the commercialisation of space ended up being a 45-minute, live play-by-play of the...
There were a number of launch and spacecraft orders this month. NASA is going to fund a Starship Space debris inspection mission launching in late 2026 In a blow for Europe’s (late and expensive) Ariane 6, Eutelsat signs multi-launch agreement for Japan’s...
Boeing confirmed that Starliner, its Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station (ISS), was safely recovered only – to its eternal embarrassment – minus the crew. Starliner undocked from the ISS at 2204 on 6 September. Using an airbag and...
There were a number of launch and spacecraft orders ranging from small to big this month. Smallsat launch services company SEOPS has agreed to buy space on future Intuitive Machines lunar missions to sell on to anyone who wants to send smallsats to the Moon. Intuitive...
