20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
... 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...
22 July 2019
Its lift-off for India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission
... 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...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... 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 ...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... 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
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
..., called the Hypersonic Space and Global Transportation System (HSGTS), include: a 100 per cent reusable TSTO launch vehicle; takes off and lands horizontally; air-breathing propulsion on both stages; - Mach 4 turbine engines on the first...
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...
