The South African satellite industry is taking yet another step forward as a player in the international arena with the April 18 launch of two South African-built nanosatellites onboard a...
Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, hopes to see a future where more women are engaged in the space industry. During her speech on the 33rd...
Rocket reusability, Earth observation and big data promise to be hot topics at the 33rd Space Symposium, taking place in Colorado Springs, Colorado this week. Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) President Eric Stallmer...
Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully hot-fire tested a full-scale, additively manufactured thrust chamber assembly for the RL10 rocket engine that was built from a copper alloy using Selective Laser Melting (SLM)...
Satellite companies are eagerly awaiting the arrival of new vehicles that will speed up launch and overhaul their process for creating new applications. Announcements from some heavy hitters in rocketry should provide hope for exponential progress in the next 10 years...
Gwynne Shotwell, president and COO at SpaceX, remembers being at home at the time when the incident happened, reading emails. “Static fire had become pretty routine. But I got a call from my head of
Global-IP Cayman announced it has signed a launch services agreement with SpaceX for its first communication satellite GiSAT 1. GiSAT 1 is a High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) with 150 Gbps of...
Arianespace shareholders voted unanimously to convert the launch operator to a Simplified Joint-Stock (SAS) company at its annual general meeting held in Paris. The modification aims to streamline and modernize...
As labor protests continue to roil in Kourou, French Guiana, Arianespace has placed its Ariane 5 VA236 launch, originally scheduled for March 21, on indefinite hold. According to the company,...