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...
April 2025
Lego’s tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis
... itself can be removed from the pad, the strap-on solid rocket boosters (SRBs) can be separated and the Orion capsule removed from the ... model version of the Starship and its Super Heavy booster. Now that would be a construction task to challenge ...
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...
17 January 2025
Investigation launched after SpaceX Spaceship 7 explodes
...execute a spectacular and successful “catch” of the flight’s rocket booster on its return to Earth at the launch tower. Meanwhile,... and deployment, Blue Origin failed to land the first stage booster, which is designed for reuse, on a platform in the...
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...
