... services for commercial and government missions, today announced it has procured a full mission aboard an Orbex Prime launch vehicle set to lift off in the fall of 2022 from the UK's first spaceport in Sutherland, Scotland. With its expansion...
... Heavy, SLS, Vulcan, and New Glenn. The value of being able to fly on many different launch vehicles cannot be over-stated. Launch vehicle flexibility is a massive overall risk reduction for both initial and sustaining operations. It decouples any...
... participate in our projects and in turn invited Soviet scientists to work on NASA projects. Now, Russia must provide launch vehicles for European projects for the chance to participate in just one or two experiments, or to install its own equipment...
...aircraft going higher than this. It is really only the expendable launch vehicle (ELV) that uses the airspace above this. NASA’s Ikhana glides... is reopened after the expendable stages of the launch vehicles have come down. Some launchers take off from...
... without astronauts. In fact, we have funding for a multi-year effort to work on upper stage re-purposing with a variety of launch vehicle providers. This really opens the door to true exploration at far lower cost. Following the study, we announced...
... coverage. Far left: Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1) captures target satellite Intelsat 901 (IS-901...risks is made worse by the diverse range of launch vehicles and satellites, which further narrow the possibility of acting...