07 February 2018
Musk sets pace in the race to Mars
...delays due to strong winds high in the atmosphere. The launch attracted thousands of sightseers, crowds not seen since NASA's ... orbit. Though it is not as tall or wide as United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4-Heavy, it has more than twice the capability...
12 November 2018
"Its Business Time" for Rocket Lab's first commercial flight
..., will test the ability to passively deorbit inactive, small satellites using atmospheric drag. The Electron orbital launch vehicle had its inaugural test flight in May 2017, followed by an equally successful demonstration mission entitled “Still...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
...have judged to be a violation. Officials have disregarded NASA’s usual way of calculating schedule margins, making the predicted launch dates for SLS unreliable. Meanwhile, refurbishing engines from the Space Shuttle programme turned out to be harder...
18 January 2021
NASA's SLS engine test ends early
...it will take to send the rocket to space following launch. The team successfully completed the countdown and ignited the...pounds of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen – mirroring the launch countdown procedure – and igniting the engines. "Saturday’s ...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
...believes the Earth observation and communications low orbit constellation market will require close to 1000 satellites to be launched, and potentially as many as 4000 over the next decade. Constellation satellites tend to be small (only a few hundred...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
... hydrogen peroxide is that the launcher can be fuelled and ready to go at any time because it can be kept on the launch pad at ambient temperatures, without risking evaporating fuel, frozen valves or other low temperature damage. According to Levykin...
