31 March 2017
Success for SpaceX's first 'flight-proven' launch
...Success for SpaceX as the company is the first to use a ‘flight-proven’ rocket to deliver SES’s commercial communications satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). The SES-10 mission marked an historic milestone as SpaceX seeks to prove that...
04 July 2017
Rocket failure could delay China's Chang'e 5 mission
... March 5 came crashing back down to Earth. The rocket was carrying Shijian-18, a seven metric tonne experimental communications satellite that was to be placed into geostationary orbit, some 36,000 km above Earth. Great expectations are riding on the...
12 February 2020
Planning is submitted for Europe’s first vertical launch site
... pave the way for the latest generation of small communications satellites to be launched into an Earth orbit from the ...time, up to 12 launches a year of small, commercial satellites that will typically be used for Earth observation could be made ...
26 February 2018
The New Gold Rush: the Riches of Space Beckon!
... has already been proved to some extent by the communications satellite revolution but writers have also predicted untold wealth generation... from more ambitious applications such as solar power satellites and asteroid mining. This, effectively, is the...
16 April 2020
China in Space
..., but [the nation] is poised to build a large, permanent space station, bring back lunar rocks, assemble constellations of communications satellites and send spaceships to Mars, the moons of Jupiter and beyond…In space, China is the country to watch...
05 February 2016
SpaceX' Ambitious Plans Discussed at Commercial Space Transportation Conference
... industry. The company has yet to announce a launch date for its next mission, carrying the SES-9 communications satellite, with speculation that the launch might slip into March. Shotwell, after her conference speech, said...
