September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
Canada-based Space Engine Systems, which is developing a two-stage horizontal launch and landing vehicle, has been raising its profile recently at major international conferences and exhibitions, including ...
September 2024
Liberating access to space
...successfully used by the US government for over 40 horizontal launch missions. At this summer’s Farnborough International Airshow, ...competitiveness in the global space launch market. Andrew Turner: Raising capital for space ventures poses significant ...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... providing additional hardware. It is this approach, which offers the potential to dramatically improve the viability of horizontal space launch, that Astraius is bringing to Prestwick. Because it uses a self-contained and reusable modular pallet...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
...is a long runway, which immediately limits the locations globally, and certainly nationally, that can accommodate horizontal space launch - in particular because it is very unlikely that anyone would consider building a runway from scratch. Spaceport...
