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 ...
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...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... satellites and capacity to effectively ‘self-insure’ once in orbit, they will still want to insure the launches. Constellation launch risk can be large. For the cost benefits of scale, satellite operators will try and put as many...
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...
