Satellite

The French Space Command launched its first military space exercise to assess its capacities for the protection of its satellites and for surveillance....

Aevum presented Rawn X, the largest unmanned aircraft to date, intended as a first stage for launching small payloads into low orbit....

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy have fallen under scrutiny by the Pentagon, which has initiated a review of the certification of the launch vehicles by the U.S. Air Force. Elon Musk’s company had recently celebrated entering the military space launch market with its first national security space mission completed in December 2018....

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy have fallen under scrutiny by the Pentagon, which has initiated a review of the certification of the launch vehicles by the U.S. Air Force. Elon Musk’s company had recently celebrated entering the military space launch market with its first national security space mission completed in December 2018....

Touted as the largest plane in the world (as measured by wingspan), in its latest series of taxi tests the Stratolaunch aircraft stormed down the runway reaching the maximum speed of 90 mph, thus edging closer to its first flight.  ...

The event became the first time SpaceX’s first stage was successfully recovered on a landing zone in the West Coast....

The launch of the Zephyr aircraft by Airbus could mark the start of a new era of continuous flight. What made this possible was a series of breakthroughs in lightweight materials, solar power and batteries, and autonomous navigation. These advances have come together to create planes that can fly day and night without intervention, potentially for months at a time....

The Iridium-7 mission has successfully launched from the Vandenberg air force base in California, placing the latest ten satellites from the American company’s second-generation network into orbit. Deployed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Iridium now has 65 new NEXT satellites in the sky, just one away from the intended total. The plan is to be fully operational by the autumn....

SpaceX successfully launched another Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, US, on July 25, 2018. This time, the launcher carried 10 next-generation Iridium communication satellites that were all deployed around the Earth. It is the seventh satellite launch for Elon Musk’s company, which puts the number of satellites currently in orbit at 75....

UK announced on July 16, 2018, at the Farnborough International Airshow, that it plans to build the country’s first commercial vertical launch spaceport in northern Scotland. ...