December 2014
Gods and space
Getting a helping hand – An Orthodox priest performs a blessing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan, ahead of the Soyuz launch that carried Expedition 41 to the International Space Station in September 2014
07 April 2017
Astronauts can zip to safety with new Emergency Egress System (EES) from ULA
...this perhaps surprising but very practical method, United Launch Alliance (ULA) have teamed together with Terra... 12 of the Crew Access Tower (CAT), 52 metres above the Space Launch Complex 41 pad deck at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, crew will be...
19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
... more than eight minutes, just like it will during every Artemis launch to the Moon. The longer duration hot fire tested a variety ...designed to help fly, track, and steer the rocket during launch and flight. Prior tests in the Green Run test series ...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
...in funds that supported the creation of approximately 2,175 American jobs, and $474.46 million in GDP. Contracts for launch and cargo services, as well as vehicle development, are also a significant investment in the private sector. The US Government...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
...rocket inside a rocket that takes advantage of the low cost launch afforded by the likes of SpaceX and sells payload space ...enabler but that the real enabler is the lower cost of launch, which will allow the construction of giant solar farms in space...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... essentially civil missiles. Indeed, one of the most successful current launchers is Soyuz - the ‘modified missile’ that launched the first satellite in 1957. The situation is little better in human spaceflight, the only operational transport systems...
