April 2024
Planning, designing and delivering a spaceport
... associated with government-funded and government/contractor-operated spaceports, supported by billion-dollar prime contractors. Legacy launch sites, established by the USA and Russia over several decades, had a more straight forward journey during...
September 2024
Liberating access to space
... vehicle design integrates in-production motors, off-the-shelf components, and a delivery platform with over 40 successful launches. We are doing it differently to meet growing client demand for innovative solutions that minimise risk and development...
April 2025
South Korea’s rising rocket star
... to the next in rapid succession will depend ultimately on the success, or otherwise, of each individual launch. First test launch vehicle HANBIT-TLV successfully launched from the Alcântara Space Center in Brazil in March 2023. Sequence showing the...
April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
... suitable for this kind of application. US start-up Longshot is building a cannon to gradually accelerate a projectile up to orbital launch speeds, with the goal of launching cargo into space. Shown here, the Longshot team with CEO Mike Grace (front...
08 December 2017
Second test launch window for trailblazing Electron rocket
... the team will be focusing on gathering more data to inform future launches. “Once again, we’re expecting to scrub multiple times as we wait...and an Earth-imaging Dove satellite for Planet. The launch will enable Rocket Lab to gather crucial data and ...
05 February 2018
Launch fever grips Florida as SpaceX prepares for game-changer mission
...adorned with posters advertising the ‘SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch next Tuesday at 1:30 pm’. Local TV news channels ...cloudless. Yesterday, two days before the first scheduled launch window of the week, international media could start collecting...
