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...
21 July 2021
Blue Origin launches four commercial astronauts to space and back
.... He also became the youngest person to fly in space. New Shepard became the first commercial vehicle under a suborbital reusable launch vehicle license to fly paying customers, both payloads and astronauts, to space and back. Jeff and Mark...
16 April 2024
An Introduction to the Spaceport Industry
...However, many other planned spaceports are based on the vertical launch of (mostly) small launch vehicles. Meanwhile, the technology of reusable first stages that return autonomously to the launch site, or an off-site recovery platform, has been ably...
July 2014
Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris
... tracking challenges. In November 2013, a US Minotaur I launch vehicle carried 28 spacecraft into orbit: at that time, this ...in an era where one can expect the launch of one payload on board one launch vehicle. This has been further emphasised by the ...
