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...
30 June 2016
Orbital ATK and NASA Successfully Complete Second Qualification Test
The QM-2 test was conducted in order to test the performance at the lower operational temperature limit (40 °F / 4.44 °C). The booster was kept in a cold environment for over a month in an attempt to uniformly cool the casing and propellant. All ...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... as the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a program to send astronauts to visit an asteroid by the 2020s and the Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket Congress instructed NASA to build in 2011 will be first in line to see the Exit...
10 June 2020
New map boosts chances of finding water on the Moon
... low Earth orbit; benefits that will also aid humanity’s quest in setting up colonies on other planets. United Launch Alliance, who has already offered to buy liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen propellant in cislunar space has said...
16 July 2021
NASA's $25 billion FY2022 funding bill is approved
... includes $7.28 billion for Exploration, an increase of $723.9 million above FY 2021. The bulk of that is for the Space Launch System ($148.9 million) and the Exploration Ground Systems associated with SLS and Orion ($100 million...
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...
