16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
... of a large and diverse sample of exoplanets. For now though, all eyes will be on Cheops tomorrow as it heads for a dawn/dusk orbit at an altitude of 700 kilometres. Also hitching a ride on the Soyuz-Fregat launcher will be the first...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... team; SpaceX’s Starlink project. Satellites in this initial constellation are expected to be visible after sunset and before dawn with brightnesses between 3 and 7 magnitudes. For comparison, Polaris, the North Star has an apparent visual magnitude...
15 July 2020
Comet Neowise puts on a spectacular show
... light. At the moment, the comet is visible from mid-northern latitudes in the evening sky through until dawn and it should be relatively easy to find due to its proximity to the bright star Capella and the stars...
27 January 2021
Axiom Space unveils crew for first private ISS mission
... the three commercial astronauts paid to join the mission. “Axiom provides missions to Earth’s orbit because the dawn of true private spaceflight is the next line of moments. Only into the expanse outside our atmosphere can...
03 September 2022
Hydrogen fuel leak scuppers second Artemis 1 launch attempt
... and fixed an engine issue that caused the postponement of the original launch attempt five days earlier. As dawn broke at KSC on Saturday morning an over-pressure alarm sounded and the tanking operation was briefly halted...
31 December 2018
Foreword to Spaceflight: an illustrated bibliography of pre-1958 publications on rocketry and space travel
... this book. For decades, its author has been collecting and cataloguing books published before the dawn of the Space Age, and this illustrated bibliography is the result of his passion (full disclosure: this reviewer...
