By Vishwam Samkara, Published by yahoo!news, 28 November 2022 Japan’s space agency Jaxa has announced it successfully used steam to propel its spacecraft that was launched as one of the payloads aboard Nasa’s Orion spacecraft. “This is the world’s first successful orbit control beyond low Earth orbit using a water-fuel
By Richard Tyler, Published by The Times, 11 November 2022 Operation Get It Up, a tiny plasma-based power system providing propulsion to a small cube satellite, will sit on top of a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket due to be launched next month. It has been designed by engineers at the
New models of the Long March 9 (center) and Long March 5G crew launcher (left) at the Zhuhai Airshow 2022. Credit: OurSpace By Andrew Jones, Published by SpaceNews, 9 November 2022 HELSINKI — Rocket designers with China’s main launch vehicle institute have scrapped plans for an expendable super heavy-lift launcher
Published by South Front, 18 October 2022 On October 15, 2022, at 22:55 Moscow time, the Russian Aerospace Forces successfully launched a light-class carrier rocket Angara-1.2 with a spacecraft from the State Test Cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in Plesetsk in the Arkhangelsk Region. The
By Jonathan Amos, Published by the BBC, 14 October 2022 The British rocket company Skyrora's first attempt to get to space has ended shortly after lift-off with the booster ditching in the sea. The Edinburgh-headquartered company was aiming to get its Skylark L vehicle above 100km in a flight from
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 6 September 2022 The cooperative research and development agreement was signed with U.S. Transportation Command WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab announced Sept. 7 it has signed a cooperative agreement with the U.S. military to explore the possibility of using the company’s space launch vehicles to
By Chris Vallance, Published by BBC News, 19 July 2022 A European hub for high-energy laser weaponry is to be based in Livingston, Scotland, a big defence firm has said. Raytheon UK said the "advanced laser integration centre" would open next year and would help meet growing demand for laser
By Caroline Delbert, Published by Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2022 Black carbon in the atmosphere is like dressing Earth in a black shirt on a sunny day. A new study shows what will happen if spaceflight increases by a factor of ten.This estimate is in line with the trajectory of
