Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with head of Russian space agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin during a flight to the Vostochny Cosmodrome on September 4, 2021. (credit: ALEXEY DRUZHININ/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images) The fate of the International Space Station hangs in the balance as tensions between Russia and the West escalate following the country’s […]
Enlarge / A stack of OneWeb satellites is shown before a launch at Baikonur in Kazakhstan. (credit: OneWeb) OneWeb announced on Monday that it has reached an agreement with SpaceX to complete its constellation of low Earth orbit broadband satellites. This decision was necessitated after the United Kingdom-based company} decided it could no longer launch […]
Enlarge / Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov participate in a news conference after docking with the International Space Station. (credit: Roscosmos) On Friday, three cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station, having launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and harsh Western sanctions, the International Area Station […]
Well, it looks like Pete Davidson is going to be stuck on Earth for the time being. The Saturday Night Live star was recently named as the next big celeb to take a trip to space on the Blue Origin rocket, but that has plan has been scuttled. Why? Is it the increasing controversy surrounding his relationship with Kim […]
Enlarge / Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin has been tweeting like he’s unhinged since Russia invaded Ukraine. (credit: Yegor AleyevTASS via Getty Images) It has now been half a month since Russia invaded Ukraine, setting into motion a set of consequences that have reverberated around the world. In the space domain, this has led to a […]
Enlarge / Only five Ariane 5 rockets remain before Europe will transition to the Ariane 6 vehicle. (credit: ArianeGroup) Welcome to Edition 4.35 of the Rocket Report! No report next week. We’re now one week away from the momentous rollout of the Space Launch System rocket for the first time to the launch pad. I […]
Enlarge / NASA administrator Bill Nelson will probably be pretty happy with NASA’s final budget, even if it’s late. (credit: NASA) Let’s face it, the US budgeting process is largely broken. The current budget year, fiscal year 2022, began back on October 1. This year is now nearly half gone, and the US Congress has yet […]
Enlarge (credit: janiecbros | Getty Images) For more than 20 years, the Landsat 7 satellite circled Earth every 99 minutes or so, capturing images of almost all the planet’s surface each 16 days. One of many craft that observed the changing globe, it revealed melting glaciers in Greenland, the growth of shrimp farms in Mexico, […]
Hopefully Pete Davidson is already hard at work preparing himself for space travel, because if Jeff Bezos has anything to say about it, the comedian is going to be launched into orbit SOON! The Amazon founder and the Saturday Night Live star have apparently been talking for a while now about the possibility of Pete climbing into Bezos’ Blue Origin […]
Enlarge / As the space world watched Russia threaten to withhold Soyuz launches, SpaceX causally sent its ninth rocket of 2022 into orbit on Thursday, another batch of Starlink satellites. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann / Ars Technica) Welcome to Edition 4.34 of the Rocket Report! There is a famous quote said by Vladimir Lenin, of all […]