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...
08 April 2016
Falcon 9 Launch Scheduled for Later Today
SpaceX will be launching its Falcon 9 rocket with the robotic Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled ... down on terra firma at Cape Canaveral — the first time this had ever been done during an orbital launch.
February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
...picturesque county that survives on tourism and a rural agriculture economy. I agree that the idea of a spaceport regularly launching large aircraft and rockets seems at odds with an environment-orientated holiday experience. But a county has to have...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... to stay on schedule. It was in 2011 when NASA announced its latest venture in human exploration: development of the Space Launch System super heavy-lift rocket after an independent commission had presented a range of approaches NASA could pursue...
24 March 2016
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Launched
... June, Orbital ATK hopes to resume Cygnus launches on its Antares vehicle, which has been grounded since October...will be determined later and depend on NASA's schedule. Prior to that launch, Orbital ATK plans to carry out a static fire test of another ...
