August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
... ease the potential financial (including insurance) burdens. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo craft alongside the signature feature of Spaceport America, the Gateway to Space building, which serves as a hangar and training centre. The New Mexico...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
...capable of crewed and un-crewed transportation services to LEO destinations. SNC is currently working with airport and spaceport authorities in pursuit of the necessary licenses for missions. After successfully completing early test flights with NASA...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... 14 February. P.Kunhi Krishnan, director of the Sriharikota Spaceport, described it as the “shortest countdown” compared to those...gathered on the terraces of the nearby buildings of the spaceport to witness history in the making - applauding, cheering...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... five experiments and instruments. Together, the two make up BepiColombo, which will be launched on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana in October 2018. It will use the gravity of Earth, Venus and Mercury, in combination with...
April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
... you looking around? Huelva is a military base in southwestern Spain, so it’s very good for suborbital tests but it’s not a spaceport. We can do all the acceptance and qualification testing there, but our first commercial mission will be from...
01 December 2015
LISA Pathfinder set for liftoff
... with unprecedented accuracy. LISA Pathfinder aboard the Vega launcher – fully assembled in its mobile gantry at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. “LISA Pathfinder is a complex mission,” says flight director Andreas Rudolph. “Even after...
