July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
.... We have seven missions on contract right now, and we’re also planning a crewed version which could take people to a low Earth orbit platform. What we envisage long term is multiple platforms, connected together with nodes and serviced by the Dream...
12 November 2018
"Its Business Time" for Rocket Lab's first commercial flight
... commercial launch successfully deploy six small satellites into a low-Earth orbit over the weekend; a move that opens up the... inactive, small satellites using atmospheric drag. The Electron orbital launch vehicle had its inaugural test flight in May ...
28 March 2019
India carries out first-ever anti-satellite weapon test
... missile test and successfully obliterated a low earth orbit satellite in space. Codenamed “Mission Shakti...to the decreased distance it produced minimal debris that decayed out of orbit within a year. The target destroyed in India’s Mission Shakti was...
26 October 2021
Blue Origin and Sierra Space announce development of a commercial space station
...next evolution of the commercial space paradigm by creating the first ever crewed private sector platform in low Earth orbit. The Orbital Reef will carry forward the singular legacy of the ISS, supporting innovative microgravity research, development...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
...systematically tracked have a size greater than 10 cm diameter in low Earth orbit (LEO) and greater than 1 m in geosynchronous orbit (GEO). This means that the whereabouts of the majority of orbital debris is unknown. Space agencies and companies are...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
...exploration of deep space, the primary purpose of SLS is to enable NASA’s journey to Mars and propel humans beyond low Earth orbit for the first time in almost half a century. The initial configuration of SLS - Block 1 - will be capable of delivering...
