30 October 2019
Solar Orbiter ready for launch transfer
... Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, in preparations for launch. Solar Orbiter will perform a close-up study of our Sun and the Sun-... of the Solar System. At the same time, Solar Orbiter will acquire in situ data and characterise and calibrate its remote...
September 2017
Space nation set to mark its presence in orbit
... the constitution developed by lawyers. Asgardia-1 will primarily be a data storage satellite. It is scheduled for launch into orbit this autumn by an Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying the ninth Cygnus cargo freighter, which will be on its eighth...
September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
... satellites that have recently been retired, or that are no longer needed by their original operators, to initiate new orbital businesses at much lower costs. Additionally, in the case of a satellite anomaly, MEV can assist in anomaly attribution for...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
...is counting down the hours to the launch of their Solar Orbiter mission. Scheduled for launch Monday 10 February 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET... will face blistering temperatures of up to 500°C. Solar Orbiter’s mission objective is to collect data on the Sun’s...
22 May 2020
Virgin Orbit to attempt first orbital launch starting Sunday
...will coast for 22 minutes before releasing its payload into low Earth orbit. “If LauncherOne reaches an altitude of 50 miles on this mission,... to a partnership with DMG Mori, which saw Virgin Orbit become the owner of one of the first hybrid additive...
29 September 2021
Orbit Fab to launch first geostationary fuel tanker
...-001 Tenzing – is a 35 kilogram small satellite tanker designed to store green propellant (high-test peroxide) in a sun-synchronous orbit to refuel other spacecraft. Tenzing was launched on 30th June, 2021 via a SpaceX Falcon 9, and is also being...
