18 December 2017
Prometheus to power future European launchers
... available and its high efficiency, standardisation and operational simplicity makes it a perfect candidate for a reusable booster engine demonstration. In fact, an oxygen/methane combustion chamber demonstrator (named ROMEO) has already been tested...
05 February 2018
Launch fever grips Florida as SpaceX prepares for game-changer mission
... enough so it will not damage the pad if it explodes on ascent. And then there is return of the twin side boosters which are scheduled to land back at the Cape, both at landing zone one not far from each...
18 September 2018
First Moon tourist for SpaceX unveiled as Japanese billionaire
... design resembles a much larger version of the now redundant space shuttles, with fins rather than rocket boosters attached to the rear. With a cost for the BFR development expected to be around the $2 billion to $10 billion mark...
16 August 2019
SNC remains optimistic about crewed Dream Chaser
... we fly Vulcan," Bruno said. "So all of the major elements of Vulcan - its payload fairing, its solid rocket boosters, its avionics, its software - are going to be feathered in on Atlas flights between now and then so that by the...
30 September 2019
Elon Musk unveils SpaceX's massive new Starship
... base, however this could increase substantially for the new version of Starship and its Super Heavy booster, which could have as many 37 Raptors. Each future mission will probably require at least 24 said Musk. Musk...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... mega-constellation into a low-Earth orbit (LEO) and currently sat at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, is a Soyuz-2.1b booster loaded with 34 satellites for OneWeb’s global Internet network due for lift off on Thursday. This is just...
