29 November 2021
Skyroot successfully test fires India's first privately developed cryogenic rocket engine
...-1 can carry a payload of up to 225 kilogrammes to a 500 kilometre sun synchronous polar orbit (SSPO), or 315 kilogrammes to 45 degree inclination 500 kilometre low Earth orbit (LEO). The largest rocket, Vikram-3 can transport 580 kilograms to SSPO...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... within the next 10 years. Skylon, capable of lifting a 15,000 kg payload to low Earth orbits, will require a more sophisticated kind of operating base to that of the sub-orbital spaceplanes. In fact, it is not really a spaceplane at all, but more...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
... in creating data stacks that can add specific industry and decision intelligence to an array of industries. The low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation-based satellite services - including Internet, IoT, AIS, ADS-B, GPS-RO - integrate into different...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... 3D printed rocket fuel. The company is developing a three-stage rocket capable of launching up to 380 kg into low Earth orbit. Initially, it may not be possible to do it alone, but over several iterations of the Talisman Sabre exercise, Australia...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
...regulating chemicals produced or imported in the EU. Part of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) solar array returned from low Earth orbit by astronauts after the HST’s first service mission, showing the atomic oxygen protection silicone coating to have...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... global broadband, while Google and Samsung are also mulling similar initiatives. With all these satellites, low-Earth orbit - at an altitude of 2,000km (1,200 miles) or less above the planet - is becoming an increasingly crowded space. When I spoke...
