09 September 2016
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on its way to study Bennu after successful launch Thursday
...spacecraft is happy and healthy,” said Rich Kuhns, OSIRIS-REx program manager for Lockheed Martin, at a post-launch press conference. “It is working absolutely as we designed it.” The mission plans for OSIRIS-REx to go to Bennu, a near-earth asteroid...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
.... The SIA creates a second pathway focusing on licensing, authorisation and supervision for UK space activities that are launched from within the UK. The regulation will be by means of a tripartite relationship between the Health and Safety Executive...
April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
... but it’s impossible to develop the full vehicle. We developed the full vehicle and people said you’ll never launch it… but we launched it! And now, for us, the goal is an orbital launcher, which of course we are told is also impossible! You...
October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
... Moon). And finally there is the national security market, launching payloads for the US Department of Defense and other national ...ago: the market crashed and went from an annual geostationary launch rate in the high twenties to a market in the...
April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
... suitable for this kind of application. US start-up Longshot is building a cannon to gradually accelerate a projectile up to orbital launch speeds, with the goal of launching cargo into space. Shown here, the Longshot team with CEO Mike Grace (front...
16 September 2016
China launches its second space lab 'Tiangong 2' into orbit
...astronauts, roared into the skies from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China’s northwestern Gobi Desert on the ... 2017, with a core module of the space station to be launched by China around 2018 said Zhou Jianping, chief engineer of China's ...
