May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... rockets-a Russian Proton Rs 455 crores; Japan’s H-11A, Chinese Long March, Arianespace Ariane-5 and the American Atlas 5 each cost Rs 6,692 crores. Against these a launch by ISRO’s PSLV is estimated to be around Rs 100 crores. One of the...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
... and the University of South Australia as part of the QB50 project (an international network of 50 CubeSats) - was launched by NASA on an Atlas V rocket bound for the International Space Station (ISS). Aussie innovation An AUD$500 million investment...
August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
...different way of doing business which helps protect government finances. Artist’s rendering of Dream Chaser atop a ULA Atlas V rocket on Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Astronautics It’s also different because we actually...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The mobile service tower at SLC-3 is rolled back to reveal the ULA Atlas-V rocket that launched NASA’s InSight spacecraft on 4 May 2018 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Core...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... and rocket propellant from the Earth is unrealistic. Currently a launch to low Earth orbit (LEO) via the Atlas V booster costs US$20,000/kg while SpaceX promises a reduction to US$1,700/kg with its partly reusable Falcon Heavy rocket...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... from its flight failure, the commercial crew missions for NASA that were to be launched by Falcon 9 and Atlas V in 2018 were delayed for various technical and mission assurance reasons and will not now take...
