12 August 2019
Communicating water-powered CubeSats tested in space by NASA
... for a series of propulsive manoeuvres to be planned with onboard processing and completed cooperatively by the two craft. The demonstration didn’t stop there though, as after proving that the CubeSats could talk cooperatively to one another, the...
12 November 2018
"Its Business Time" for Rocket Lab's first commercial flight
.... The Electron orbital launch vehicle had its inaugural test flight in May 2017, followed by an equally successful demonstration mission entitled “Still Testing” in January of this year, where its payload provider Planet, added yet another...
17 May 2021
European startup to produce oxygen from lunar soil for ESA 2025 mission
... to extract oxygen from the lunar surface will enable the sustainability of these exploration efforts. The ISRU Demonstration Mission will show for the first time an end-to-end extraction process in a manner representative of a scaled production...
16 October 2019
Astroscale takes next step toward launch of world’s first commercial active debris removal mission
...docking, and eventual de-orbit. While cooperative rendezvous has been performed in orbit in the past, ELSA-d will demonstrate the first semi-autonomous capture of a non-responsive, tumbling Client, as well as the first identification of a Client that...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
.... This is the first time, the UK Space Agency has licensed a company for an In-Orbit Service / End of Life demonstration space mission. The UK government also awarded Astroscale a grant of £4.2 million to develop the firm’s IOCC facility. In return...
19 June 2017
"The most efficient rocket engine in the world" to be launched by ARCA
... due to schedule and budget constraints, the design was not implemented. ARCA is also considering using the Demonstrator 3 to begin commercial suborbital flight services as the simple and low cost rocket can carry a payload of 30 kilograms...
