January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... a technology that has the potential to bring all the advantages of air-launch, without the downsides. De-coupling air launch Transporting the launch vehicle inside an aircraft means that it is better protected during ferry operations In 1974...
April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
... stone to accelerate the technological advancement of their MIURA 5 rocket with the ultimate goal of launching Europe’s first recoverable launch vehicle. Raúl Verdú, Chief Business Development Officer for PLD Space, spoke to Daniel Smith for ROOM...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... space tourism industry and has one eye on the development of Skylon, the single-stage-to-orbit satellite launch vehicle. Despite the breadth of topics, the SIA is, in fact, somewhat skeletal in terms of the details and some of these...
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
...Authorization Center (IN-SPACe) would be formed, to support private entrepreneurs who had come forward to develop end-to-end launch vehicles and satellites, ISRO said. "We want to help Indian startups that are doing pioneering work,” Finance Minister...
03 June 2019
Stratolaunch to close operations
... new aerospace company Vulcan Aerospace, a subsidiary of Vulcan, Inc, announced in 2014 that it was considering multiple launch vehicle options over a range of satellite sizes, to rival the likes of SpaceX and Blue Origin – those seen as traditional...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
... of materials into space, which will require a far more efficient and capacious delivery solution than current launch vehicles, including the SpaceX Starship. Here, the authors describe their concept for a Galactic Harbour as part of a Dual...
