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...
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...
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 ...
28 July 2017
Japan's first privately developed rocket launches tomorrow
... a nose-dive into the sea upon its return. Interstellar technologies mission is to “change the economics of Space Launch Services, making it more economic to existing customers and accessible to entirely new markets,” and it aims to achieve this...
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...
04 September 2017
Secret spaceplane set for another launch
... hitch a lift on a Falcon 9 rocket, showing that SpaceX is surpassing its private space company roots to multitask as a military launch provider too - a contract that is no doubt a big deal and a very profitable one for this advancing organisation.
