28 June 2021
Loft offers unique satellite ‘rideshare’ opportunities
... Orbital’s own instruments with which it will serve multiple customers. The satellites are among 88 onboard SpaceX’s Transporter-2 flight, itself the company’s second designed specifically as a rideshare. In another sign of the times, it is also the...
25 January 2021
SpaceX rocket deploys record number of payloads in one flight
SpaceX on Sunday launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying a record number of satellites on board, the private space company said. The rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:00 am (1500 GMT), 24 hours after its initial take-off ...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
... elevators and a variety of contemporary rocket launch systems is therefore essential; together they will compose the space transportation architecture for this century. Rockets have three principal strengths: they are successful today, they can...
May 2024
Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring
... cost would benefit nearly all users of space. Commercial markets that have so far become profitable involve transporting only small amounts of mass The ‘Ascender’ two-seat suborbital spaceplane is intended to serve as a lead-in to Spacecab and...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... communications hub in geostationary orbit. Enter the Scorpion The Scorpion concept was of a crewed general purpose space transport system that could, as a minimum, undertake the post-Apollo programme objectives. The two constraints were, firstly...
September 2024
Liberating access to space
... global launch operations which it aims to start from spaceports based in the UK. Astraius will use the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, a tried and tested system capable of launching payloads up to 1000 kg to a variety of low Earth orbit (LEO...
