April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
... of this kind would be suitable for this kind of application. US start-up Longshot is building a cannon to gradually accelerate a projectile up to orbital launch speeds, with the goal of launching cargo into space. Shown here, the Longshot team with...
06 March 2017
Virgin Galactic announces its new space venture - Virgin Orbit
... Previously conducted as a division of Virgin Galactic, Virgin Orbit proposes to offer flexible, reliable and low cost launch ...Talking of the recent announcement, Whitesides said, “Virgin Orbit will lead the world in responsive, affordable, dedicated ...
21 November 2018
First captive carry of Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne
... ground in 2017 - a figure that sounds reasonable enough, but falls somewhat short of true potential say Virgin Orbit. The company therefore has designs on scaling up launch rates to an unprecedented frequency and its LauncherOne system ‘is a great...
15 April 2020
Successful test clears the way for Virgin Orbit's first-ever launch
... similar to that which will be carried on operational flights - super cold liquid oxygen. Founded by Richard Branson, Virgin Orbit is a branch of the billionaire’s Virgin Group of companies, which also includes the Virgin Galactic space tourism firm...
17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
... size of a European country, said mission scientists in a press conference yesterday. The ‘campfires’ were detected with Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager, or EUI instrument, which takes high-resolution images of the lower layers of the Sun...
29 September 2021
Orbit Fab to launch first geostationary fuel tanker
...-001 Tenzing – is a 35 kilogram small satellite tanker designed to store green propellant (high-test peroxide) in a sun-synchronous orbit to refuel other spacecraft. Tenzing was launched on 30th June, 2021 via a SpaceX Falcon 9, and is also being...
