30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
... announced that its X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 (OTV-5) successfully landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility, having spent 780 days in space conducting on-orbit experiments. The lengthy mission meant that...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... SLS Block 1 internal configuration uses a Space Shuttle-heritage, flightproven propulsion system that’s been upgraded and... four RS-25 engines, which previously served as the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), built by Aerojet Rocketdyne. These human...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... assessment of the technical and organizational causes of the Columbia accident - concluded that NASA’s organization for the Shuttle program combined, among other things, all authority and responsibility for schedule, cost, safety and technical...
March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
.... Both satellites had been launched on the 10th Shuttle mission of Challenger, but each had suffered separate ...more than twenty years later, we are without the Space Shuttle and despite significant advances in robotic satellite servicing technology, ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... out more about these missions. Only a few reported on its successor, the X-37 spaceplane. In effect, the secret shuttle flights marked the normalisation of military space. Romantic adventure that spaceflight might be, those in authority reached the...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... been based upon this type of assessment and the US Space Shuttle, for example, was ‘sold’ on the assumption of 25-30 flights...United States. References 1 “Mathematica Economic Analysis of Space Shuttle System” NASA-CR-129570 URL: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/...
