November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
...list of technologies it deems essential for a journey to Mars which include - ground operations, a heavy-launch vehicle, crew capsule, a deep-space transit vehicle with high-efficiency in-space propulsion and power, protection from radiation, optical...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... space programme achieved good results developing the Sonda sounding rockets, pointing the way to the Satellite Launch Vehicle (VLS) orbital rockets that followed. For example, the final project prior to the development of the VLS...
12 May 2016
Boeing CST-100 Flight Postponed Until 2018
... “really viable option” for dealing with pressure on the spacecraft and launch vehicle, and plans to test it in a wind tunnel soon. A ... hoped to be the first company to fly its commercial crew vehicle. “It is our vision that the CST-100 will be the...
13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
...)” CELSIUS is a system that can be installed on the surface of the cryogenic upper stage tank of a space launch vehicle to provide enhanced insulation capabilities and protection from meteoroids and debris. Astrobotic Technology, Inc., Pittsburgh...
08 February 2019
New Orbex rocket revealed
... Elecnor Deimos Space, and it was already flight-proven. We didn’t have to re-invent it.” The Orbex announcement of the launch vehicles details and the opening of its new production facility represents a further boost for Scotland’s fast-growing...
22 May 2020
Virgin Orbit to attempt first orbital launch starting Sunday
... will have done something no one has ever done before — lighting an orbital-class, liquid-fuelled, horizontally-launched vehicle in flight, Richard Branson’s firm said in a statement Wednesday. After separation of the first stage, the smaller...
