April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
...independent study from the University of Exeter on the carbon impact of the project and the operator Virgin Orbit. The report established that, at the height of activities, Spaceport Cornwall’s operations would contribute just 0.04-0.1 percent of all...
04 July 2016
JUNO's orbit insertion phase starts soon!
... will complete a burn of its main engine, placing it in orbit around the most massive planet in our solar system, Jupiter. The...72 minutes later, it will make a faster turn into the orbit-insertion attitude. At 10:41 p.m. EDT (7:41 p.m. PDT), Juno ...
22 April 2020
SpaceX seeks permission to lower the orbit of all its first-gen Starlink satellites
... acknowledged in their application, concerns raised by a number of parties regarding the problems vast quantities of satellites in a low-Earth orbit could cause. Some small satellite operators have in the past said it would make it more difficult for...
26 May 2020
Virgin Orbit's first orbital test flight fails due to anomaly
... though not as many as we would have liked,” said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. “Nevertheless, we took a big step forward ... other rockets for subsequent missions not far behind. Virgin Orbit’s decision to begin production of multiple rockets well in ...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
...Centre, Sriharikota on 5 November 2013, carrying the Mars Orbiter Mission This apart, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at ... becomes operational, will have the capacity to place in orbit four-tonne class communication satellites. This flight, which ...
June 2015
Promoting growth at geostationary orbit with a one-stop-shop
... customer wanting to put a spacecraft into the 36,000kmhigh orbit, you’re probably looking at an entrylevel cost somewhere between ... were more than 400 active satellites in geostationary orbit. The majority are communications satellites but there are...
