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Satellite and launch orders in November 2024
Launch orders: NASA gives SpaceX US$257 million contract for Falcon Heavy launch of its nuclear-powered Dragonfly helicopter drone to Titan SEOPS buys SpaceX Falcon 9 launch for dedicated rideshare mission to GEO while also signing with Axient for in-orbit delivery...
Starship IFT-6 flight splashdown succeeds – but SpaceX aborts booster landing
Observed by Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump, the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Super Heavy/Starship combination lifted off at 2200 GMT on 19 November from Boca Chica, near Brownsville, Texas. Its primary aim was to enact a controlled splashdown in the...
Seradata’s recommended space stories – November 2024
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 another...
The Great Space Race 2024: the tortoise begins to outpace the hare in the race back to the Moon
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...
Launches in November 2024
Seradata’s recommended space stories – October 2024
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 October (space orders can be found in another...
Decolonising space, the ‘used rocket’ marketplace and a Kenyan spaceport: new ideas from IAC 2024
With a record 11,000 attendees and over 2,000 presentations, there were too many ideas, exhibition stands, papers and talks for anyone to cover comprehensively. The sense of ‘FOMO’ (fear of missing out) was inescapable as attendees, lowly humans that we are, lack the...
Satellite and launch orders in October 2024
Launch Orders Japan's H3 gains launch order for Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) mission SpaceX is awarded US Space Force launch orders worth US$733.5 million for seven launches for SDA and two for NRO Firefly Alpha gets multi-launch contract for True...
Spacewalking in style: Axiom unveils spacesuits designed with Prada
Amid the plethora of people at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan, one of the fashion capitals of the world, there was undoubtedly one outfit that turned the most heads: that of Axiom’s Artemis spacesuit. The Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit...
IAC 2024: Space cooperation – but don’t sit next to me
The annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is the primary meeting place for space agencies to get together. That and the fact that it was hosted in highly fashionable Milan, in Northern Italy, made IAC the place to be seen this October. This fact was...
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