July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
..., the supply chain will be able to utilise a much larger suite of capabilities of both government and commercial launch vehicles. The campaign architecture will also serve as a platform to help validate new self-sufficiency capabilities that maintain...
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-...
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...
