Day: July 26, 2024

Key Highlights Q-KON unveiled new OneWeb Twoobii-LEO user terminals with a successful demonstration at an exclusive Midrand, South Africa event. The new terminals offer a crucial backup to traditional fibre networks, maintaining seamless operations during fibre outages. Q-KON has released new OneWeb Twoobii-LEO user terminals. The launch was marked by a successful demonstration at an …

Q-KON Launches New OneWeb Twoobii-LEO User Terminals. Read More »

SpaceX says it has identified and fixed the problem that caused its Falcon 9 rocket to fail during a launch earlier this month. That failure occurred on July 11, as a Falcon 9 carried 20 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites toward low Earth orbit. The rocket’s first stage performed normally that day, but its upper …

SpaceX Finds Cause of Falcon 9 Failure, Eyes Return To Flight As Soon As July 27. Read More »

Boeing’s Starliner will do a “hot fire” test in orbit soon, as NASA and the company continue to probe the cause of thruster failures and a helium leak in space. Starliner will conduct the test-fire of its 28-thruster reaction control system (RCS) on either Saturday (July 27) or Sunday (July 28) at the International Space …

50 days After Launch To ISS, Boeing Starliner Astronauts Still Have No Landing Date. Read More »

Blue Origin has announced the crew for its next New Shepard space tourism flight. The diverse crew includes a NASA-funded researcher, a professor, a university student, a cardiologist and entrepreneurs, Blue Origin announced in a statement on Wednesday (July 24). The announcement signals that Blue Origin is ready to resume flights, having tackled an issue …

Next Blue Origin Space Tourism Flight Will Launch Youngest Woman Above The Kármán Line. Read More »

China has test-fired a new engine for a planned rocket designed to take astronauts to the moon. The liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen engine, sometimes referred to as the YF-75E, was tested by the Sixth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the country’s state-owned space contractor. The test was conducted at a vertical high-altitude …

Watch China Test-Fire Engine For New Crewed Moon Rocket. Read More »

“Why do we go to space?” asked NASA administrator Bill Nelson to a small crowd at NASA headquarters last week. “We go to explore the heavens, but we also go to improve life here on Earth, and that includes attacking this dreaded disease that we know is cancer.” Nelson was speaking at an event held …

ISS Scientists Make Headway In Cancer Research: ‘We’re NASA, We Do Moonshots’. Read More »