On its second attempt, Isar Aerospace successfully placed satellites into orbit, marking the first achievement of its kind for Europe’s private space industry. The mission, dubbed Onward and Upward, lifted off from Isar Aerospace’s own launch pad at the Andøya Space complex in Norway at 22:12 CEST on September 5 (23:12 Kyiv time), deploying the […]

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The spacecraft carrying European and Japanese scientific probes is completing its eight-year journey and will arrive at Mercury on September 3, where it faces a series of challenging maneuvers to study the scorching planet. The BepiColombo mission was launched from Earth in 2018 on a complex trajectory to investigate the smallest and least-studied planet in […]

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The entire batch of satellites that were supposed to become part of Russia’s version of Starlink failed to reach – or maintain – their planned low Earth orbit altitude roughly a month after launch. The 16 spacecraft of the “Rassvet-3” project, launched on July 19, were initially intended to orbit Earth at an altitude of around 800 km. However, […]

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