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...
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...
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 ...
21 August 2017
First Slovak satellite launched into space
...of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket, when it hitched a ride along ...companies and other potential partners around the world. “The launch of this satellite is only the beginning,” said Michaela...
25 March 2020
China to launch experimental deep-space spacecraft in April
... station, can carry a cargo of 6,500 kilograms. Tianzhou-1, whose name literally translates as ‘Heavenly Ship’, was first launched on the Long March 7 rocket from Wenchang on 20 April, 2017, however it was not designed for return journey...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
...far too speculative and therefore risky for the vast majority of investors. Global competition is now forcing launch companies to reduce costs by employing advanced manufacturing methods to build cheaper expendable vehicles. A few, most notably Space...
