October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
..., they’ll need a launch vehicle powerful enough to lift them back into space. When astronauts launched from Earth on the shuttle... work in developing and proving new capabilities and vehicles – rendezvous and docking, extravehicular capability, weeks-...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
..., which was by then mostly dedicated to interplanetary space probes or soviet satellites placed in geostationary orbits. Soyuz launch vehicle in the assembly hall at Baikonur cosmodrome Several factors lay behind the partnership between Roscosmos and...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
..., the supply chain will be able to utilise a much larger suite of capabilities of both government and commercial launch vehicles. The campaign architecture will also serve as a platform to help validate new self-sufficiency capabilities that maintain...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... ballistic missiles and space launchers is still shrouded in secrecy. The development of its own space launch vehicle, which could be used to launch its own satellites, began after the establishment of the Iranian Space Agency in 2004. On 25 February...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
...has been disrupted by SpaceX, with its Falcon 9 launch vehicle designed with reusable first stages and payload fairings. Smallsats ...can be met cost effectively will be through reusable launch vehicles. A concept for constructing a lunar base using ...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... that comprises the platform including life support systems. The only thing we don’t have right now is a launch vehicle, but everything else we’ll be able to provide. Artist’s rendering of SNC’s LIFE habitat in orbit. About the interviewees Janet...
