SSL, the former Space Systems/Loral spacecraft construction company owned by Maxar, has decided to withdraw from its construction contract with Maxar spin-off Space Infrastructure Services LLC (SIS) to build the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS)...
While some men have accused the #MeToo campaign for partly emasculating them, actually there are more serious threats to their virility – chemical ones. There has long been concern that the difficult-to-filter female hormone oestrogen in the water supply...
Until now it has been a mystery how Elon Musk planned to get his BFS/Starship upper stage back through its fiery re-entry intact from high-energy orbits and super-orbital return speeds from the Moon and Mars. This column speculated that he was planning to use some...
The US-based start-up Stara Space is reported (by Space Intel Report) to have ordered two 0.75kg PocketQube Unicorn 2-A picosat spacecraft from the Scotland-based Alba Space firm. The satellites are called Noor 1-A and Noor 1-B are to demonstrate low Earth orbit...
Seradata gives its sympathy and best wishes to those airline passengers and crew stranded while trying to travel from London’s second airport Gatwick after it was shut down by rogue “drone” aircraft buzzing the apron. While we have sometimes joked...
During November, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the applications of four large-scale communications satellite constellations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which will total more than 8,000 satellites if fully implemented. Of these, the SpaceX...
