Boeing’s engineering credibility was already under fire following the Boeing 737 Max airliner crashes, partial failure of the first unmanned test flight of its commercial crew CST-100 Starliner spacecraft (causing a US$410 million hit to Q4 earnings) and various...
While doubts remain about the SpaceX Crew Dragon, especially after its total destruction during a ground test last year, SpaceX appeared to vindicate itself after making a full flight test of the system before it begins carrying astronauts to the International Space...
While Ball Aerospace is the payload manufacturer and also the main “Prime” contractor as integration constructor of the MethaneSAT spacecraft, the nano-satellite manufacturer and kit maker Blue Canyon Technologies has just received a surprising order to...
Officially it is not a blow to SpaceX, given that its Starship Mk.1 suborbital hopping test rocket was not going to fly again, but the tank failure on the spacecraft/upper stage during a deliberate over-pressurisation test on on 20 November still made a spectacular...
In the nick of time, on 5 November, before UK General Election rules would prevent major government funding announcements, the UK Government announced that it would provide £7.35 million (US$9.5 million) for “spaceport” infrastructure changes at Newquay airport in...
The 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2019) was held in the US Capital Washington DC during October. One advantage of the event being held in a “mainline” capital city – rather than the much smaller city of Bremen last year and Adelaide the...
