SpaceX has launched the first 60 satellites in its Starlink low Earth orbit constellation of communications satellites aimed at providing high bandwidth with low latency to mobile users on Earth. The launch, which had been delayed by over a week by upper level winds...
There is just a month to go to the Seradata Space Conference, Space Risks, Business and Insurance which takes place in London on 25 June 2019. We have put together a fantastic array of speakers who will inform, educate and entertain you. Our Headline Sessions include:...
While US Vice President Mike Pence’s target for a US human landing on the surface of the Moon was doubted by some – not least because a lunar lander would take years to develop – now there could be a solution. Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos has revealed, in a...
At the OneWeb keynote session at SATELLITE 2019, CEO Adrian Steckel, accompanied by SoftBank Managing Director Alex Clavel, gave insight into the company’s plans for the coming year. OneWeb feels ready to begin production of satellites at its new Florida manufacturing...
While Hollywood has long flagged the dangers of asteroid and comet impact via its science fictional disaster movies Meteor (1979), Deep Impact (1998) and Armageddon (1998), real life space seemed to have no solution to the threat. Now NASA, in conjunction with John...
The Israeli privately-financed SpaceIL Beresheet (B’reshit) unmanned lunar landing probe has crashed on the Moon following a complication that caused its landing engine to be cut off at a key moment. Having hitched a paid-for ride on a Falcon 9 launch on 22 February,...
