SSI News
Astronaut Mark Vande Hei breaks US spaceflight record as he returns to Earth with two cosmonauts on Soyuz MS-19…meanwhile China drops off its freighter from its space station
While Roscosmos rather cruelly joked that it might leave him in space after US protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the end NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, a former US Army Colonel, returned to Earth on board the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft on 30 March 2021....
Long March 11 launches three radar calibration satellites for China
China successfully Launched a Long March 11 (CZ-11) launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 0229 GMT on 30 March. The rocket was carrying three spacecraft, Tianping 2A, 2B and 2C, which will be used for radar calibration.
Greg Wyler’s new constellation project secures seed funding and launch for first demo sats
Noted space industry entrepreneur Greg Wyler (whose track record in this field includes founding the O3b and OneWeb projects) has secured seed funding of US$50 million for his next constellation aimed at bridging the digital divide. E-Space, of which Wyler is Founder...
Long March 6A makes its launch debut
China successfully launched a 50 m long Long March 6A (CZ-6A) launch vehicle built by SAST from Taiyuan launch site in China at 0950 GMT on 29 March 2022. The launch was the maiden flight of the launch vehicle which uses a two YF-100 engine core and single YF-100...
Terran Orbital completes SPAC merger and earlier received 42 sat order from US SDA
Terran Orbital Corporation (Terran Orbital) announced that it had completed its SPAC merger on 25 March and expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on 28th. The transaction saw it merge with the Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC),...
SES orders its second Space Inspire satellite from Thales Alenia Space
SES ordered its second Space Inspire software-defined GEO satellite from Thales Alenia Space on 28 March. It is to be a dual-band Ku- and C-band satellite and is planned to replace the NSS-12 unit located at 57 degrees East. This new satellite is set to be called...
Spacewalking astronauts successfully make modifications to ISS ammonia cooling system but helmet water leak spectre returns
On 23 March, the International Space Station (ISS) Quest airlock was depressurised and Expedition 66 Flight Engineers Raja Chari, of NASA, and Matthias Maurer, of ESA, opened the hatch at 1232 GMT to begin a spacewalk (US EVA-80) to make modifications to the radiator...
GLSV 2 failure traced to faulty liquid hydrogen pressurisation relief valve
The cause of the 12 August 2021 launch failure of the GSLV 2 CUSP 1 launch vehicle, which lost the EOS-03 satellite (formally called GISAT 1 GEO Imaging Satellite), has been revealed by India's space agency ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation). After a...
Military Space: North Korea shocks the world with its successful ICBM launch
North Korea successfully launched its first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) on a high arcing test flight from a base in Sunan, North Korea, at 0534 GMT on 24 March. The missile is thought to be a Hwasong-17 rocket launched from a mobile platform, similar to...
Satellite 2022: SpaceX raises prices in wake of inflation and falls out with launch arranger Spaceflight
While SpaceX representatives were speaking at the Satellite 2022 conference, Washington DC on 22 March, the company was also telling customers that it was raising the price of some services to combat inflation. Most pertinent to those in the space industry is the...
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