22 May 2020
Virgin Orbit to attempt first orbital launch starting Sunday
... LauncherOne, this niche in the market is now being filled with orbital vehicles such as Rocket Lab’s Electron booster, who will also be competing for contracts from NASA, the US military and other commercial companies. With...
30 May 2020
An historic day for US spaceflight as Crew Dragon launches successfully
... Falcon 9 smoothly lifted off and headed into orbit. After around 9 minutes into launch, the Falcon 9 booster landed safely on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship using engine power so that it can be re-used on a future...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... into the nose cone structure that protects the craft (the payload fairing) atop of a Mitsubishi H-IIA booster, will be powered by energy collected from solar panels which provide 600 Watts of power at Mars – the spacecraft...
16 October 2020
SWRI tests "Clockwork Starfish" for sampling asteroids
... performed on the New Shepard, which incidentally was the seventh consecutive test flight of this particular rocket booster and the 13th flight for Blue Origin's New Shepard programme, involved placing two Clockwork Starfish...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
... that once belonged to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), who in 2017, deployed 104 satellites on a single booster. Although SpaceX itself had “just” 10 satellites on the flight, Elon Musk’s firm is planning on launching thousands...
23 April 2021
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 heads to the ISS in a reused rocket and capsule
... on the “Of course I still love you” droneship stationed in the Atlantic – SpaceX's 80th landing of an orbital class rocket booster. “Flying on reused vehicles, on flight proven vehicles is key towards greater flight reliability and lowering the cost...
