Satellite News

The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft’s 21-m sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for science operations.

The inquiry commission looking into the failure of South Korea’s first Nuri rocket has identified a design flaw as the root cause for the launcher’s failure to enter orbit.

As many as three Progress MS cargo spacecraft are planned to be launched to the ISS (International Space Station) from the Baikonur spaceport this year, Roskosmos said.

The Ariane 6 core stage and upper stage are now en route to Europe’s Spaceport. After final assembly at ArianeGroup’s Les Mureaux site and completion of all its functional acceptance tests, the core stage was taken to the French port of Le Havre.

Iran’s rocket launch on 30 December 2021, 0330 UTC from the Imam Khomeini Space Centre failed to put its three payloads into orbit after the rocket was unable to reach the required speed, a defence ministry spokesman said in remarks carried on state television.