April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... rocket or SpaceX’s Starship, and only a little more than the Falcon Heavy’s 63.8 tonnes. Long March 10 can deliver 27 tonnes to ...look remarkably like Western counterparts, particularly SpaceX’s Falcon-9 and Starship. The Chinese government appears to...
May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
... propulsion systems, like the engines used in the Saturn V or Falcon Heavy, offer high thrust in the range of 1000 to 3000 kilonewtons... chemical propulsion systems, like the engines used in the Falcon Heavy offer high thrust, but at a cost. Their...
18 May 2018
China launches its first private space rocket
... is the first in the US. We're the first in China.” However OneSpace is not looking to match the payload capabilities of the Falcon 9 just yet and is instead looking to provide launches for prices lower than US$10,000 per kilogram. Clearly...
11 November 2019
Fourth time rocket reuse for SpaceX mission but concerns still over satellites
...of a recovered fairing – the nosecone – previously flown on Falcon Heavy’s Arabsat-6A mission earlier this year. The nosecone is ...the mission will mark the first fourth flight of a Falcon 9 first stage that previously supported the Iridium-7, SAOCOM...
03 February 2021
SpaceX announces Inspiration4, the first ‘all-civilian’ mission to space
... of Florida. The crew will prepare for the flight by undergoing commercial astronaut training from SpaceX on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft. This includes training in orbital mechanics, operating in microgravity, zero gravity, and...
23 April 2021
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 heads to the ISS in a reused rocket and capsule
... for the first time. The Crew Dragon spacecraft separated from the Falcon 9 upper stage as scheduled 12 minutes after launch. Meanwhile SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 first stage, which incorporates nine Merlin engines that can generate...
