July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
.... The SIA creates a second pathway focusing on licensing, authorisation and supervision for UK space activities that are launched from within the UK. The regulation will be by means of a tripartite relationship between the Health and Safety Executive...
09 September 2016
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on its way to study Bennu after successful launch Thursday
...spacecraft is happy and healthy,” said Rich Kuhns, OSIRIS-REx program manager for Lockheed Martin, at a post-launch press conference. “It is working absolutely as we designed it.” The mission plans for OSIRIS-REx to go to Bennu, a near-earth asteroid...
16 September 2016
China launches its second space lab 'Tiangong 2' into orbit
...astronauts, roared into the skies from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China’s northwestern Gobi Desert on the ... 2017, with a core module of the space station to be launched by China around 2018 said Zhou Jianping, chief engineer of China's ...
28 July 2017
Japan's first privately developed rocket launches tomorrow
... a nose-dive into the sea upon its return. Interstellar technologies mission is to “change the economics of Space Launch Services, making it more economic to existing customers and accessible to entirely new markets,” and it aims to achieve this...
21 August 2017
First Slovak satellite launched into space
...of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket, when it hitched a ride along ...companies and other potential partners around the world. “The launch of this satellite is only the beginning,” said Michaela...
15 January 2018
Earth-i launches first-of-a-kind satellite
... that its first-of-a-kind, pre-production prototype satellite of its upcoming Vivid-i satellite constellation was successfully launched on Friday. The new commercial constellation boosts that it will not only significantly increase the ability...
