Blue Origin has announced that 82-year-old space pioneer Mary Wallace “Wally” Funk will fill the fourth seat on New Shepard’s first passenger flight on July 20, 2021. A participant in the 1960’s Woman in Space program, she will be the oldest person to ever fly into space. The selection ofRead More →
Virgin Galactic has made history, becoming the first spaceliner to be certified by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to carry passengers. The adjustment of the operator’s license held by the company since 2016 comes as Virgin Galactic prepares for its last three test flights, including the first fully crewedRead More →
DEPENDING ON THEIR MISSION. SATELLITES HAVE DIFFERENT ORBITS. Weather and communication satellites are placed in Geostationary Orbits (GEO) at an altitude of 36,000 km above the equator, from which they have a constant gaze on the same region of the Earth. Other satellites are placed in Low Earth Orbits (LEO)Read More →
The US Space Force has launched a tactical satellite developed in only four months with only 21 days notice. On June 13 at 4:11 am EDT, the Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) demonstration satellite was launched on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket dropped from a modified “Stargazer” L-1011 aircraft thatRead More →
The headquarters of the United States Space Command was supposed to be based in Colorado. Since then-President Donald Trump revived the command in 2018, the state had been its temporary home, and last February, when the search for a permanent location was still on, he had teased that the current arrangement couldRead More →
When NASA and Space X launch the Crew Dragon “Resilience”, it will be a number of firsts. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is poised to send a crew of FOUR astronauts NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi to the International SpaceRead More →
The International Space Station (ISS) won’t be the only off-Earth outpost for much longer, if all goes according to plan. On 2 November, the huge orbiting laboratory celebrated 20 years of human occupation, a big milestone in humanity’s push to extend its footprint into the final frontier. The ISS was a collaborationRead More →
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery to Earth in 2023. This well-preserved, ancient asteroid, known as Bennu, is currentlyRead More →
This was the third time this year that ISS had to manoeuvre to avoid debris. The International Space Station (ISS) made an emergency course correction to move it out of the path of an unidentified piece of space debris earlier this week. The Russian Progress 75 cargo ship fired its thrustersRead More →
“Several Starship prototypes were destroyed during testing” In April, SpaceX successfully pulled off the first ‘hop’ test for its Starship prototype, the SN5. Last week, the company has once again repeated that feat with the SN6, a rocket which Elon Musk has previously referred to as a flying water tower, dueRead More →
