29 May 2024
Spanish and German firms join forces to expand commercial access to space
...Customers of PLD Space, and Jeanne Allarie, Chief Commercial Officer at Exolaunch, penned an agreement to obtain Exolaunch launch capacity on PLD Space's MIURA 5 launcher and... service." See also the ROOM article: Commercial launch development in Spain
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... the outpost missions in cis-lunar space to begin addressing proving ground objectives. The initial outpost, delivered by commercial launch, would also provide opportunities for scientific experiments, both during crew-tended periods and the untended...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... perfect rocket, Ariane-5. The market cost of the launch of one satellite is more than $120m (and, as a rule, two are launched at the same time); but it is an open secret that every commercial launch of Ariane-5 is subsidised from the budget of the...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... within only two years, will lead to at least 21 Soyuz launching from both the Guiana Space Centre and Russian launch sites. Along with the possibility to conduct commercial launches to GTO with Soyuz from French Guiana in 2017 in order...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
...) and Sir George Zambellas. Horizontal launch history One of the first dedicated small commercial launch vehicles was a horizontal air-launch system Traditional horizontal launch, whereby rockets are air-launched from a carrier aircraft, rather than...
13 December 2023
Orbex awarded £3.3 million as part of ESA initiative
...be carbon-neutral in its construction and operation. The site will see the launch of up to 12 orbital rockets per year, with several commercial launch contracts with satellite manufacturers already secured. Sustainability is also a core driver in the...
