August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... in Dream Chaser, a reusable, multi-mission space utility vehicle capable of transporting payloads and people to and from low-Earth orbit and the ISS. Currently SNC is building a cargo version of the Dream Chaser. It will be the only commercial...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
...NCRP) issued a report: ‘Information Needed to Make Radiation Protection Recommendations for Space Missions Beyond Low-Earth Orbit’. Recommendations in this report included improvement of the characterisation of the space radiation environment for GCR...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
... such as SpaceX and OneWeb to add thousands of new small satellites to the 1000 or so active satellites already in low Earth orbit make the sustainable management of space debris more important than ever. In an attempt to address this, the MAAC...
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...
April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
... launch system altogether. Longshot aims to use a ‘space cannon’, which - it is claimed - would be able to fire a shell into low Earth orbit with a single blast. With this system, a bullet-shaped capsule would be ejected from the gun barrel...
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 ...
