... to the chief designer of the Long March family of rockets, Long Lehao, China is currently developing a heavy duty launch vehicle that could be capable of sending Chinese astronauts to the moon by 2030. The statement, announced on state media CCTV...
..., 2011), Tupak Katari (Bolivia, 2014) and LaoSat-1 (Laos, 2015). These projects typically involved Chinese satellites, launch vehicles, TT&C infrastructure, insurance and financing (through the Export/Import Bank of China), and were brokered by the...
... 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 ...
... 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...
... 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
... solar panels, antennas and telescope mirrors. iSAM will unshackle spacecraft engineers from the volumetric constraints of launch vehicles and allow for exciting next-generation capabilities such as very large space telescopes, manned Mars transports...