December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... – when almost 75 per cent of global missions have failed This mission, launched on 5 November 2013, at India’s vast spaceport Sriharikota near Chennai, had excited everyone, and millions across the country watched the developments on 24 September...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
... stays. An on-Earth space tourism infrastructure is also being developed: the first spaceport has now been built in America. There is a plan to build an entire chain of spaceports all over the world. The unstoppable yearly growth in both supply...
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...
