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...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... ballistic missiles and space launchers is still shrouded in secrecy. The development of its own space launch vehicle, which could be used to launch its own satellites, began after the establishment of the Iranian Space Agency in 2004. On 25 February...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
...has been disrupted by SpaceX, with its Falcon 9 launch vehicle designed with reusable first stages and payload fairings. Smallsats ...can be met cost effectively will be through reusable launch vehicles. A concept for constructing a lunar base using ...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... that comprises the platform including life support systems. The only thing we don’t have right now is a launch vehicle, but everything else we’ll be able to provide. Artist’s rendering of SNC’s LIFE habitat in orbit. About the interviewees Janet...
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...
22 April 2019
Anomaly during SpaceX test could delay its first crewed flight
...9 rocket in the event of an anomaly with the launch vehicle, however it is unclear how this significant static fire incident...SpaceX conducted a series of engine tests on a Crew Dragon test vehicle on our test stand at Landing Zone 1 in Cape Canaveral,...
