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...
August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
...-offs. Opportunities come in three basic varieties: dedicated launch vehicles, secondary launches and nanolaunchers. A dedicated launch is when a customer purchases rights to an entire launch vehicle and has complete control of the orbit, schedule...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
...includes the Columbus/ISS project and the Cassini/Huygens mission. David has a keen interest in reusable launch vehicles, having worked as a propulsion engineer at Rolls-Royce and then as a system engineer at British Aerospace on the HoToL spaceplane...
September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
... 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...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
... and astronauts, spaceplanes comparable to Spacecab were widely studied. It was clear then that throwing away the launch vehicle on every flight could never become economical, and most big aircraft companies in Europe and the USA...
February 2016
Innovations in human astronautics
... Solar System. Today, Russia is developing key elements of a future transport system - a new generation manned transport vehicle and a heavy launch vehicle that will be able to place the new ship onto the correct trajectory for reaching the...
