14 August 2016
Sixth successful landing for Space X rocket
...to be a challenging mission. Delivering cargo into a geostationary transfer orbit uses up a lot of fuel during take off and it ...later this year. Falcon Heavy is designed to lift into orbit the mass equivalent of a 737 jetliner loaded with passengers...
13 June 2017
Asgardia nation to launch inaugural satellite
... with four deployable solar arrays, will primarily be a data storage satellite. It is scheduled for launch into orbit on 12 September by an Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying the ninth Cygnus cargo freighter, which will be on its eighth operational...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
... Friday. The selected astronauts are set to fly to low Earth orbit in Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vehicles ... a NASA blog. Boeing’s uncrewed flight test, known as Orbital Flight Test, is due to take place late 2018/early 2019...
26 November 2018
Success for InSight as it performs a flawless landing on Mars
...making adjustments based on weather reports from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying overhead. InSight’s EDL phase was watched by a ...-space ground tracking stations and its ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). However a few others had prime viewing...
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
..., after they picked through data collected from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), an instrument on the Mars Global...powerful HiRISE camera stowed on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Experiment) can take...
20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
... could see each country contributing a payload to the others up and coming lunar missions, namely the Luna-26 orbiter spacecraft and Chang’e-7 polar landing mission respectively. The agreement would also see both space-faring...
