At a presentation at the Satellite 2017 conference in Washington DC in March, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos showed off the latest rocket design to emerge from his Blue Origin rocket company. While similar to past artist’s impressions of the rocket, the new design will...
The Orlando, Florida-based ballistic missile target rocket builder, Coleman Aerospace, has been acquired by the rocket engine maker Aerojet Rocketdyne. The deal with Coleman Aerospace owner L3 was for US$15 million cash. The move puts the engine maker in the position...
The first flight of Japan’s dedicated SS-520-4 cubesat launch vehicle has failed on its maiden flight. The launch took place at 2333 GMT on 24 January 2016 from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima, Japan. After a successful lift off from its rail launcher,...
While various theories involving sniper rifles and mystery flying objects abounded, the on-pad pre-launch test failure on 1 September 2016 which destroyed a Falcon 9v1.2 FT-R rocket and the Amos-6 satellite, has been confirmed as likely to have been caused by a helium...
The S3 air-launch project, which was announced in April 2013 by Swiss Space Systems (S3) Holding SA, has been ended after S3 was formally declared bankrupt by a court in the Swiss canton of Vaud. The proposed launch system of S3 was to consist of an Airbus A-300...
NASA has awarded the Restore-L Spacecraft Bus and Support Services contract to the US-based, Canadian-owned spacecraft manufacturer Space Systems/Loral (SSL). Restore-L is a robotic spacecraft equipped with the tools, technologies and techniques needed to service...
