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Movie review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a return to form for our Indy with a timely space connection
The adventure movie, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, has finally been released after some years in production. Directed by James Mangold and starring Harrison Ford in the title role, it is, like its predecessors, a rip-roaring travelogue adventure, although...
Dragon CRS-28 undocks from ISS and splashes down off coast of Florida
Dragon CRS-28, an unpiloted resupply craft, undocked from the space-facing (Zenith) port of the International Space Station’s (ISS) Harmony module at 1630 GMT on 29 June. It carried around 1,630 kg of scientific cargo including samples from BioNutrients-2, Monoclonal...
ESA’s Euclid telescope mapping dark matter is launched by SpaceX Falcon 9
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 carrying the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid Telescope from Cape Canaveral, US, at 1512 GMT on 1 July. Euclid, named after a Greek mathematician known for founding the study of geometry, will spend the next month travelling...
Vega-C solid rocket has test failure…as payloads start jumping ship
A test to qualify a new carbon-carbon material in the nozzle on the Vega-C Zefiro-40 second stage solid rocket engine after it was indicated as the source of a launch failure in December 2022 has itself ended in failure - but not of the nozzle. While the nozzle...
Virgin Galactic finally makes first commercial suborbital flight – and it is a success
Virgin Galactic made the first fully commercial flight of its air-dropped SpaceShipTwo rocket plane VSS Unity on 29 June. The nearly 14 minute long Galactic 01 mission (from drop to landing) flew successfully to the edge of space before landing safely back at the...
Thank you and God speed to our departing leader Tim Fuller and welcome to Melissa Quinn
In a leadership change, Managing Director Tim Fuller has left Seradata to go into semi-retirement (he will continue as a consultant with us). Tim founded Seradata after buying the space department and, importantly, its SpaceTrak spaceflight database, from the then...
The US$10 billion merger that never was: SES and Intelsat abort talks as SES CEO exits
The longstanding rumours about a possible merger between satellite operators Intelsat and SES, to create an entity valued at over US$10 billion, have finally been put to rest after Intelsat reportedly walked away from the discussions. Luxembourg-based SES confirmed...
Meteor M2-3 weather satellite is launched by Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat along with 42 other spacecraft
A Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat was launched from Vostochny launch site in Far Eastern Russia on 26 June 2023. Aboard was the VNIIEM-built 3.25 metric ton Meteor M2-3, a phased-arraw radar-equipped weather satellite heading for a 800 km sun-synchronous low Earth orbit, as the...
Elon Musk makes changes to Super Heavy/Starship and to pad ahead of next launch
SpaceX is making a number of modifications to its SuperHeavy/Starship combination and to the launch pad ahead of its next flight, following its pre-staging maiden launch failure due to attitude control and engine loss issues. Elon Musk, founder, CEO and Chief...
UAE decides to go to the asteroid belt with its own probe
Following the success of its Mars probe “Hope”, the UAE Space Agency has announced a plan to launch a probe to the asteroid belt by 2028. Known as the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA), from 2030 onwards it will study six asteroids on its way to a final one,...
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