June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... space debris cloud that already surrounds the Earth. However, if the payload mass is chosen appropriately, the boosters retain enough fuel to make it possible to lower the speed in perigee after circling the Moon and on the...
03 June 2019
Stratolaunch to close operations
... due to the problems experienced trying to find a booster capable of lifting the Stratolaunch payload delivery vehicle into ...Northrop Grumman) were hired to build a suitable medium-lift booster, but neither produced a rocket by the time the agreements...
July 2014
Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris
...time, this represented the largest amount on board any single booster, consisting of a primary spacecraft and 27 CubeSats. In ... 30 hours after the Minotaur launch, a Russian Dnepr booster established a new record by carrying 32 small payloads into...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... what appears to have been a small piece of debris from an old Soviet-era booster. While not a direct collision, Pegaso’s impact with the booster’s debris field damaged the cubesat and interfered with its attitude controls...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
...failed after a collision with one of its own first-stage boosters in a separation incident. It grabbed the headlines as it... is designing an even larger rocket – the Starship/BFR Booster combination. The rocket is designed to provide flights to the...
25 November 2015
Historic landing for private rocket company Blue Origin
...the spacecraft accelerates towards the boundary. Once the crew capsule separates from the booster and coasts into space, the astronauts can enjoy several minutes of weightlessness ...Jeff Bezos at the site of the New Shepard rocket booster landing.
