04 September 2020
Rocket Lab secretly launches its first own designed and built satellite
... delays associated with having to build their own satellite hardware and procure a separate launch.” Designed for launch on Electron, as well as other launch vehicles, ‘First Light’ paves the way for future, high-energy variations of Photon designed...
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 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... - 1970, ELDO, the European Launcher Development Organisation (a precursor of the European Space Agency) conducted its Europa launch vehicle programme, the largest space project undertaken at Woomera. Although ELDO never managed...
August 2019
Space investment – from build-up to breakthrough
... impact from the smallest satellites to the largest. For launch vehicles, reusability and the prospects for increased launch rates are trends disrupting the historically predictable launch market. Reusability’s impact will start with the first stages...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... could truly compete with the 1960s when it comes to progress in a decade. Musk’s design for a fully reusable launch vehicle, capable of reaching the Moon, is already undergoing hop-tests in Texas. Starship, as it’s known, is partially bankrolled...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... clients and markets. Together this drives the end-to-end Scottish value chain of small satellites, launch vehicles, launch sites and downstream applications and technologies. In addition, the Scottish Funding Council sponsors seven innovation...
