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...
August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
... payloads to get access to launch vehicles that are oversized for their needs, such as the Falcon 9, Antares, Atlas V and Soyuz. Despite the wide range of launch opportunities available there is no one option that does not...
August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
This article identifies some of the most important incentives to attract entrepreneurship that are embodied in national space laws, in particular from Australia, France, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US), as well as considering ...
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...
