April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... of its new astronaut capsule, Starliner, in December 2019 after it suffered technical problems that prevented it docking ... Rover after the first soft landing on the Moon in January 2019. China’s Chang’e programme has three steps - a robotic programme...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
...deadline” of 31 March 2018. Despite this, on 11 April 2019, the Foundation awarded US$1 million to the Israeli non-profit organisation...announced its fully-funded ‘Mission One’ in September 2019. Its unusual and innovative lunar rover will be delivered...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
... example, Space Logistics’ MEV-1 was launched in October 2019 and successfully docked with Intelsat 901 in early 2020 to... demonstrations have also taken place, notably with the 2019 demonstration of fluid transfer on the International Space Station...
20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
...comet. Both collected data from observations taken between December 2019 and January 2020, when the comet was at a... constant with a possible maximum occurring around 30 December 2019. From their observations, the teams calculated that 2I/Borisov...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
...was launched and deployed from a SpaceX Falcon on 21 February 2019 with an anticipated landing on the lunar surface some weeks ... the flight model prior to its planned February 2019 launch. Smithsonian approach The Smithsonian Institution’s National ...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
... northern Scotland in August 2018, and again in July 2019 with the launch of the Skylark Nano vehicle. Skyrora... the company’s own test facility in Scotland. Engine test in July 2019. The third stage of the XL carries the payload into orbit, following...
