November 2021
Space launch emergency response
... Horizontal Launch Site Operators (HLSOs), whose rockets and their payloads are propelled into sub-orbital trajectories or low Earth orbits from carrier aircraft, such operations normally occur from existing aerodromes or airports. In the UK, these...
April 2025
Strapped for success - from racetrack to orbit
...to research and make developments to improve a number of components on the various European or American programmes for low Earth orbit space stations, lunar spacecraft, vehicles and habitation. Collaborating with agencies has not only accelerated the...
17 May 2017
SLS/Orion mission delayed until 2019
... the best approach to enable humans to move sustainably beyond low Earth orbit." The Agency has invested more than $15 billion in these... guidance.” Nonetheless, the audit also points out that low monetary reserves are having an impact on the program ...
29 May 2018
Gilmour Space prepares for suborbital hybrid rocket launch
..., which we plan to use in the first stage of our Eris orbital rocket.” 'Eris' is the company's three-stage hybrid rocket dedicated to launching small satellites (up to 400 kg) to Low Earth Orbit by 2020. "It will also be a test of our mobile launch...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... space transportation system that would allow transit to low-Earth orbit (LEO) more routinely, affordably, and safely ... This high launch cost similarly limits private forays into orbit for business and pleasure purposes. The primary contributors to...
12 April 2016
Visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions
... dynamic membrane spacecraft with a ultra-high power-to-weight ratio that can be used for the removal of orbital debris in low Earth orbit (LEO), a concept for reprogramming microorganisms that could use the Martian environment to recycle and print...
