January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... of increasingly ambitious proving-ground missions. The hardware is fully assembled at the Kennedy Space Center and the booster fully tested and ready to fly. It is time to fly! The private sector also recognised the need for...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... 2019. However, iSpace had its third consecutive launch failure in 2022. It wants to pursue reusable first-stage boosters that can land vertically, like those from SpaceX. So does LinkSpace (founded in 2014), although it also hopes...
May 2024
Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring
... transport as soon as is practicable, proven technology should be used. The new launcher will therefore need two stages - a booster and an orbiter - because single-stagers require advanced new air-breathing engines which are currently at the...
13 March 2015
ESA re-entry vehicle could pave way for reusable launcher
... demonstrator Wednesday to validate technologies for future robotic exploration probes, winged space planes, and reusable rocket boosters. The European Space Agency’s Intermediate Experimental Vehicle — about the size of a family car — will take off...
01 April 2015
Media Spun Up on NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology
... facility to an altitude of about 120,000 feet (36 kilometers). There, over the Pacific, it will be dropped and its booster rocket will kick in and carry it to 180,000 feet (55 kilometers), accelerating to Mach 4. Once in the very rarified...
18 March 2016
President of ISA Against Avio Takeover
..., ESA countries have agreed to a multi-year investment in Ariane 6 and upgrades to the Vega rocket. With Ariane 6’s boosters and Vega’s first stage produced by Avio, the production run is likely to be more than 30 cores per year...
