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
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...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
...to try to duplicate the highly competitive environment that created launch vehicle successes in the West, such as those of SpaceX and...The West has a handful of companies developing large new launch vehicles; China alone has tens. It is unclear how ...
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,...
