22 July 2019
Its lift-off for India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission
... the Apollo 11 mission took just 4 days to reach the Moon, India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk-III) used in the launch, cannot thrust Chandrayaan-2 straight to our nearest celestial neighbour. Instead the spacecraft will...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... venture in human exploration: development of the Space Launch System super heavy-lift rocket after an independent commission...for the design, development, test and production of the launch vehicle core stage and upper stages, as well as development ...
12 January 2021
Skyrora reveal new UK-built vehicle in live test
... only brings us closer to that point but also takes us beyond simply launch readiness. We have been deliberately quiet about this aspect of our Skyrora XL launch vehicle as we had technical challenges to get it to this stage and we wanted to ensure...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... Force History Office, Washington DC 1998 5 Dissel, Adam, Kothari, and Lewis, M., Investigation of Two-Stage-to-Orbit Airbreathing launch Vehicle Configurations, AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 43, No. 3, 2006. pp. 568-574
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
..., called the Hypersonic Space and Global Transportation System (HSGTS), include: a 100 per cent reusable TSTO launch vehicle; takes off and lands horizontally; air-breathing propulsion on both stages; - Mach 4 turbine engines on the first...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... satellites in the interests of national security. A serious challenge may originate via new Chinese, Indian, and Japanese launch vehicles. SpaceX’s competitors, ULA chief among them, argue that government organisations should not rely on SpaceX due...
