November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... private access to space. There are several ways to do this and while some companies have chosen to develop launch vehicles or satellite constellations, Spacebit is aiming for the Moon. The company itself is funded partly by the founder’s private...
25 November 2015
Historic landing for private rocket company Blue Origin
... after the first American in space, Alan Shepard, it is the second test of the capsule and launch vehicle this year following a launch in April, putting the company in direct competition with SpaceX. “Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard space...
20 May 2020
Skyrora completes first UK ground rocket test in 50 years
...static tested a fully integrated, sub-orbital Skylark L launch vehicle in flight configuration,” says Dr Jack-James Marlow, who... along our technology roadmap to orbital launch. This is the first time a launch vehicle of this magnitude has been tested ...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... and Peru into the “space business.” And we expect more first time nations in the years to come. Launch vehicles A close-up view of the NanoRacks CubeSat deployer in action The growth of CubeSat constellations is fuelling a new generation of would...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
..., they’ll need a launch vehicle powerful enough to lift them back into space. When astronauts launched from Earth on the shuttle... work in developing and proving new capabilities and vehicles – rendezvous and docking, extravehicular capability, weeks-...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... the coast. Different types of spaceplane could be launched from a site in the UK, ranging from air launch vehicles such as Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo to ground launch types embracing space tourist vehicles like the XCOR Lynx at one end of the...
