April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... the evolving needs of the commercial space launch industry. Well known launch sites such as Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral in the US, and Baikonur in Kazakhstan have enjoyed many decades of government funding, resulting in many launch complexes able...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... Station. On 23 December, SpaceX launched the US Air Force’s first Global Positioning System III space vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Winners and losers SpaceX stole the headlines in February 2018 when it launched...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... spider-like Lunar Module were major developments, as were the rocket testing, assembly and launch facilities at Cape Canaveral and elsewhere, and the computers and software on the ground and in the space vehicles. But the...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... and space professionals with challenging legal, economic, scientific and ethical questions Moon Express Inc, based in Cape Canaveral, is the first private company given permission by the US government to travel beyond the Earth’s orbit and land...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... the decade is out. Blue Origin’s own orbit class rocket, New Glenn, is already taking shape at its Cape Canaveral facility. It will pack over 30 times more punch than New Shepard, its seven engines generating 3.85 million...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... enjoy themselves at Cocoa Beach, Florida, in April 2019, while a highly toxic orange plume rises from nearby Cape Canaveral after a failed test fire of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule. If the cloud had reached people, it would have...
