October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
... astronauts continue to fly and perhaps one day walk on the Moon. About the Author Nick Spall is a London-based space and aviation writer specialising in human spaceflight. He has participated in ESA-led parabolic flight campaigns...
06 October 2015
Facebook, Eutelsat to beam Internet from space to Africa
...’s Internet.org project to extend worldwide Internet access to underserved areas. Eutelsat, meanwhile, is establishing a subsidiary in London to manage its African business. The launch vehicle will be a SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.2, Space News reported, with...
06 December 2015
Virgin Galactic to Use Boeing 747 for LauncherOne Missions
... with Virgin Atlantic until October of this year. Its last commercial flight was on October 29th, from London to San Antonio. Whitesides said the airplane will first undergo extensive inspection and maintenance known in aviation...
11 December 2015
ISS Crew have undocked and are heading for Earth
... Centre in Star City, outside Moscow. Image credit: AFP / Getty Images. Peake will also run the London Marathon at the same time as runners hit the capital's streets on 24 April 2016, but he will be joining in from...
