October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
... to aircraft and automobiles, some types of mass-produced parts are tough enough to withstand the harsh environment of launch vehicle flight. These parts are less expensive than space-specific parts and reach high levels of quality...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
..., which was by then mostly dedicated to interplanetary space probes or soviet satellites placed in geostationary orbits. Soyuz launch vehicle in the assembly hall at Baikonur cosmodrome Several factors lay behind the partnership between Roscosmos and...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... system to preserve volatile substances. It’s not just a self-contained spacecraft - it’s also a launch vehicle. Fully loaded, the sample return vehicle would autonomously launch itself from its container, ignite its main thruster, and fly a shallow...
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 ...
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-...
