November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... be taken over by the private sector and with a desire to focus public funding towards further space exploration, the US Congress made the International Space Station (ISS) a national lab. SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft approaches the orbiting...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... of maintaining a sustainable presence in low Earth orbit (LEO). The International Space Station (ISS) programme remains the flagship programme for human spaceflight and international collaboration, although its longer term future remains uncertain...
20 February 2017
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully on its way to the ISS
... there. Last month, NASA said it would pay an incredible $2.6 billion for SpaceX to ferry US astronauts up to the International Space Station (ISS) and back. SpaceX has reportedly spent tens of millions of dollars to make the infamous Launch Complex...
07 November 2018
China unveils its new space station 'Heavenly Palace'
... a partial replica of its ‘Heavenly Palace,’ a 60-tonne orbiting space lab that is the nation’s answer to the International Space Station (ISS). The International Space Station – a collaboration between the United States, Russia, Canada, Europe...
23 December 2019
New launch target for SpaceX abort test
...-100 Starliner, under the Commercial Crew Program. Both capsules are meant to carry crew members to the International Space Station (ISS) and back. NASA plans to buy the flights from each company as a service rather than owning the...
08 January 2021
Asgardia’s project for new module to expand ISS
...to build and supply a new node module for the International Space Station (ISS) are revealed in an exclusive article in the winter issue of the global space industry publication ROOM Space Journal. Asgardia - represented by three Austrian-based legal...
