April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
.... In February 2018, SpaceX landed two of the three first-stage boosters from its Falcon Heavy rocket’s inaugural launch. As of February 2020, SpaceX had successfully landed 49 first-stage boosters, including landings on its autonomous droneship...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... announced that “a spacecraft missile with an unspecified payload was successfully launched”. This is considered to be the inaugural launch of an Iranian space-related missile, although Iranian President Ahmadinejad later stated that the launch had...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... his Starliner crewmates, along with retired astronaut and KSC director Bob Cabana, rode in the Astrovan II to inaugurate the factory roll-out of the first completed Starliner in November 2019. “Airstream did another great job...
July 2020
The four horsemen of space finance
... of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation’s top award for Business and Finance following in the footsteps of the award’s inaugural winner, the late Paul Allen. He is a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, Delphi Fellow of Big Think and...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... 1970, followed by China (April 1970), and then India (1980). Israel followed in 1988. Earlier (1965), France inaugurated what evolved into Europe’s extensive space program.” Even a cursory glance at international space history shows that...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... Vehicle-1 (MEV-1), docked with the Intelsat 901 (IS-901) communications satellite, solidifying its place in history and inaugurating a new era of satellite servicing. Artist’s impression of MEV-1 docking with its target Intelsat spacecraft. Launch...
