By Leo Bruce, Published by NASA Space Flight, 8 March 2022 SaxaVord Spaceport has become the second launch facility in the United Kingdom to receive its milestone approval to begin construction. This comes after Sutherland Spaceport, another British vertical launch facility, cleared legalities last year and is now also in
By Leonard David, Published by Space.com, 7 March 2022 It's a form of pollution, after all. With increasing regularity, Earth's oceans are the drop zones for incoming leftovers from space. For decades, Russian Progress resupply spacecraft loaded with tons of waste from the International Space Station (ISS) have been intentionally
By Elisha Sauers, Published by Mashable, 5 March 2022 Rocket Lab has selected Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia to build and launch Neutron, its fully reusable and return-to-launchpad rocket.Victorian farmhouses, wild ponies, and a 21st-century fireworks show. On Wallops Island, a remote community on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, a press
Starship and Starlink V2 progress will be delayed, Musk said. By Tariq Malik, Published by Space.com, 5 March 2022 SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said Friday that his company is now focusing on cyber defense and overcoming signal jamming of its Starlink internet satellites amid Russia's ongoing invasion of
By Pierluigi Pagannini, Published by Security Affairs, 5 March 2022 Orange confirmed that “nearly 9,000 subscribers” of a satellite internet service provided by its subsidiary Nordnet in France were offline following a “cyber event” that took place on February 24 at Viasat, the US giant satellite operator that provides services
By Aidan Poling, Published by Georgetown Security Studies Review, 4 March 2022 January 27th, 1967 has a bitter-sweet legacy in the history of space travel. In Cape Canaveral Florida, Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chafee were killed during a rehearsal for the inaugural flight of the Apollo program. The
By Juliette Collen, Published by Space War, 4 March 2022 Paris (AFP) - Russia's invasion of Ukraine has had repercussions not just around the world but beyond it, bringing to a grinding halt joint space projects between Moscow and the West that began in the aftermath of the Cold War.
By AFP Staff Writers, Published by Space War, 4 March 2022 Washington (AFP) - From a huge Russian military convoy snaking its way to Kyiv to missile strikes and refugee crossings, commercial satellite imagery of the Ukraine conflict is helping lift the fog of war, illuminating for the public what
