December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... relay support for ground assets at Mars. On 18 November 2013, the mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an Atlas V rocket and was inserted into Mars orbit on 21 September 2014. Three views of an escaping atmosphere, obtained by MAVEN...
December 2014
A door closes
... that. At the same time, the US became dependent on Russia providing powerful engines, the RD180s, for the Atlas V rockets to launch its most important military satellites into orbit, and many US firms used Russian launch...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... when the exploration of space was dependent on monster rockets and huge satellites. Think of the American Saturn or Atlas, the French Ariane and the Russian N1 and Proton vehicles. In that sense, the space industry reflected...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... on each trip. A fifth seat may be available for paying space tourists. Launch will be by United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral All of these changes seem to have been made to reflect the modern evolution...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... the mission is having to carry the entire financial burden of the launch. However, LCROSS and LRO shared an Atlas V launch vehicle, as it enabled NASA to get two missions from the cost of one launch vehicle. Pooled capabilities...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
...Glenn wearing a Mercury pressure suit at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during preflight training activities for his Mercury- Atlas 6 flight in 1962. He made America’s first manned Earth-orbital spaceflight completing three orbits of Earth. “It all started...
