Gilmour Space passes first orbital engine tests, aims for suborbital launch in 2018
Gilmour Space Technologies, a rocket company based in Australia/Singapore, has just announced the success of the first of its full-scale orbital engine tests.
In December, Gilmour Space conducted ground tests of its...
ESA’s 1st 2018 launch will be on China’s Long March 2D on Feb 2
The European Space Agency's (ESA) first launch of 2018 will be of the GomX-4A and GomX-4B CubeSats, which will take place from China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on February 2, according...
Indonesia successfully launches two sounding rockets
Indonesia’s space agency LAPAN has successfully conducted two test flights of two of its sounding rockets, the RX 450 and RX 1220. The launches took place last week at the Space...
UNSW Canberra launches 1st satellite, opens national space mission design facility
Australia’s first national space mission design facility was officially opened yesterday by ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr at the University of New South Wales Canberra (UNSW Canberra), according to a press...
SpooQy-1: Singapore’s experimental quantum CubeSat and its Kibo launch
On November 15, 2017, Singapore Space & Technology Association (SSTA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) signed a contract to launch a 3U CubeSat "SpooQy-1" from the "Kibo" Japanese Experiment...
PSLV to launch 6 CubeSats from South Korean universities in December
India’s most frequently-used launcher, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), will conduct its final launch of 2017 in the second half of December. Along with its main payload, Indian earth observation...
Magellan Aerospace to open a US$22 mil manufacturing facility in India
Magellan Aerospace hosted a traditional groundbreaking ceremony on 15 November for the company’s new manufacturing and assembly facility in India, with Canada’s federal minister of International Trade, François-Philippe Champagne, participating in...
China and the UK begin on-orbit telescope assembly project
On 24 October 2017, China and the UK launched the The Ultra-Large Aperture On-Orbit Assembly Project, which will work towards on-orbit assembly of a jointly-developed space telescope.
Led by the China's Changchun...
Hitomi’s data reveals similarities between the Perseus Cluster & our solar system
Hitomi, a space observatory developed by Japan's space agency JAXA, has enabled scientists to discover that the proportions of elements found in the Perseus Cluster are nearly identical to what astronomers...
Australia commits $31.3 million to gravitational waves research centre
Australia's Minister for Education and Training, Simon Birmingham, has opened the Australian Research Council’s $31.3 million Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery at the Swinburne University of Technology, according to...
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