06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
... full reusability”, along with a focus on scramjet engine research. The Liquid Propulsion Systems Center (LPSC) is to ... power its huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. ISRO’s research and development Inertial System’s Unit (IISU) has been asked to...
25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
... revealed plans to build a lunar settlement with Russia. Further details including schematics of the joint International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) were also unveiled at GLEX 2021 with officials stating that the base will be developed...
20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
.... Last month Peijan noted that Chinese boots on the moon will be “entirely possible” by 2030, as long as technological research for crewed moon landings continues, and “as long as the country is determined”, he said. The rocket in question could...
02 February 2018
Joe Pelton honoured for contribution to space safety
... in space to defend Earth," he affirmed. Joe is Director Emeritus at the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute (SACRI) at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and former Dean of the International Space University...
16 July 2019
Fuel leak halts India's Moon mission
.... Having halted the countdown 56 minutes and 24 seconds before the scheduled launch of Chandrayaan-2, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) gave no explanation for what it called a "technical snag" in the rocket nor a date for a new...
29 April 2020
NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics' satellite
... an in-orbit demonstration of NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3). This a result of a contract between NASA Ames Research Center and AST for a 12U bus to carry NASA's payload into low Earth orbit (LEO) including...
