04 May 2020
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines
..., Alabama. “The same reliable engines that launched more than 100 space shuttle missions have been modified to be ... and tested to fly at the higher performance level necessary to launch the SLS, which is much larger and more powerful than the...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... to have nine instruments weighing 25 kg in total, if the rocket had been the three-stage Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), which is capable of carrying more weight. However, there was some uncertainty regarding GSLV’s performance...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... far not been achieved by any space agency or commercial company, though records for the most satellites launched in a single attempt have continued to tumble in recent years. In April 2014, Cornell University’s Kickstarter project consisting of 104...
18 September 2019
Researchers calculate feasibility of sending a probe to C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
... to send a CubeSat-class spacecraft with a mass of 3 kilograms on a path to check out the interstellar tourist. The anticipated launch date of such an endeavour would be 2030. 2030 doesn’t seem such an unrealistic target, but it relies on SLS being...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
...rely on its own Orion crew capsule and heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket – that currently is still under development...company are likely to use their own Super Heavy rocket to launch Starship and take it to the Moon. “With large habitable...
07 July 2016
Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft launched successfully from Baikonur
... Soyuz-FG rocket carrying the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft launched today at 4:36 a.m. GMT from Baikonur Cosmodrome...-orbit rendezvous sequence, docking at the ISS about six hours after launch. This time, however, the crew will follow the traditional 34-hour...
