April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... it launched Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster sports car into orbit around the Sun using its Falcon Heavy rocket. SpaceX also notched up other substantial achievements. While not every reusable first stage was recovered as planned...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... space commerce. In February 2018, SpaceX landed two of the three first-stage boosters from its Falcon Heavy rocket’s inaugural launch. As of February 2020, SpaceX had successfully landed 49 first-stage boosters, including landings on its autonomous...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... using existing Fregat technology. The Moon on a budget Thirteen heavy rocket launches would be required to build the base, and a total...it has already shelved plans to build a new heavy rocket for colonising the Moon. The Selenokhod rover never ...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... people and cargo to the Moon and potentially fulfilling billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of colonising Mars. Other heavy rocket launches include ULA’s Vulcan, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, as well as Europe’s Ariane 6 and Japan’s H3. Small launch...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
... announcement. The company are likely to use their own Super Heavy rocket to launch Starship and take it to the Moon. “With...launches, it too can be flown aboard ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket. The three will now compete against each other over the next...
27 August 2021
China funds 5yr study into kilometre-scale ultra-large spacecraft
... working on its 22-tonne core module that was sent into near-Earth orbit aboard a Long March 5 heavy rocket back in April. The space station is expected to have a mass of about 100 tonnes and when complete will...
