03 August 2018
Space activity at Farnborough FIA 2018
..., the “Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine”. This engine will achieve both air-breathing and rocket modes, allowing for hypersonic air travel at Mach 5, or orbital access velocities of Mach 25 for spaceplanes like “Skylon”. RE are...
11 October 2018
Apollo Program Development Plan
...” (not vehicle) assembly building (VAB). It also contains a two-page fold-out of the “lunar orbital rendezvous mode”, which is an interesting document in itself. But even non-space buffs with a penchant for management systems will...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... has come to an end. Mission engineers confirmed at about 2:30 pm PDT (5:30 pm EDT) Thursday the spacecraft was placed in safe mode, ceasing all science operations. After the decommissioning was confirmed, Spitzer Project Manager Joseph Hunt declared...
31 January 2020
First images of new solar telescope produces most detailed images of the Sun
... allow for more time to secure power grids and critical infrastructure and to put satellites into safe mode. The engineering To achieve the proposed science, this telescope required important new approaches to its construction and...
04 September 2020
Rocket Lab secretly launches its first own designed and built satellite
... the first time: Rocket Lab engineers sent a command to transition the Kick Stage into Photon satellite mode. This action marked the first on-orbit demonstration of Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite as a two-in-one spacecraft, first...
