15 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 8-15
... not yet seen its first flight, but if all goes well, the first Planet launch using Electron small launch vehicle can happen as early as the second quarter of 2017. Aside from Planet, Rocket Lab also has...
29 March 2018
Rocket Owners’ Workshop Manual
... Rocket Workshop Manual (1942 onwards) provides a hint that this is more of a history book than a catalogue of available launch vehicles. In fact, those with any knowledge of that industry will find the coverage of Chinese Long March rockets...
17 January 2020
TriSept secures dedicated rideshare mission aboard Orbex Prime
... 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...
28 July 2021
Bezos offers $2 billion in incentives for NASA lunar lander contract
... 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...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
... 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...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
...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...
