24 August 2018
First flight for EXOS's reusable suborbital rocket due tomorrow
... as from EXOS. “We are even more excited to reveal our plans for our Jaguar Reusable (first stage) LEO launcher. Since our SARGE rocket is designed for reusability, it is proving to be an excellent risk mitigation platform for our...
January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
...when it comes to space and the low Earth orbit (LEO) environment? It’s critical, absolutely critical. The forecasts for ... describe a self-sustaining cascading collision of space debris in LEO]. Indeed, some scientists say that we’re already living in ...
03 February 2020
“Breakthrough” 3D-printed rocket engine tests completed in Fife
...firings allowed Skyrora to assess its innovative 3D-printed 3.5kN LEO engine, which will be used to power the final upper... rapidly growing sector. He said: “We are using our upper stage LEO engine to validate a new type of fuel which we have produced....
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
..., 51.6 degree inclined orbit. Design changes made for BEAK include a new aeroshell deployment mechanism. Debris mitigation LEO is one of the most commercially valuable regions of outer space (second only to geostationary orbit, GEO), and is situated...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... coming decades. The next time a human-rated spacecraft departs LEO en route to the Moon, it will carry a payload ...together to build upon science and technology used on Earth and in LEO on the ISS, and advancing and testing them in the proving...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... US$1million, as shown in Figure 6. It also shows that a small subsonic air-launched RLV with a performance of only 500 kg to LEO – equivalent to a fully reusable ‘Pegasus’ – could support this market by carrying only two passengers per flight, but...
