12 November 2018
"Its Business Time" for Rocket Lab's first commercial flight
...to passively deorbit inactive, small satellites using atmospheric drag. The Electron orbital launch vehicle had its inaugural test flight in May 2017, followed by an equally successful demonstration mission entitled “Still Testing” in January of this...
08 February 2019
New Orbex rocket revealed
... a growing roster of customers hoping to be among the first to launch satellites from Scotland,” said Larmour. The inaugural launch has already been booked by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) of Guildford, which plans to loft an experimental...
03 June 2019
Stratolaunch to close operations
... as a huge success, but now the space company behind the aircraft is reported to be closing operations and Stratolaunch’s inaugural flight could end up being its last. Built by the late billionaire and Microsoft Corporation co-founder Paul...
28 August 2019
SpaceX's Skyhopper impresses with its highest test flight
... as early as 2021 SpaceX representatives have said. Although it could one day be the spacecraft that makes the inaugural journey to Mars, SpaceX have said that in the meantime, Starship and Super Heavy will take over...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
... and work on the EUS is expected to surge this year as the company gets ready for the SLS’s inaugural flight in 2021. Interestingly, the new bill also directs NASA to develop a human lunar lander “as an integrated lunar...
26 February 2020
Demand soars for space flights with Virgin Galactic
... plane during test flights and is likely to be on the first official trip. The initial seats for the inaugural flight were sold at $250,000 apiece, but customers only pay the full ticket price once...
