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...
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...
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...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... ballistic missiles and space launchers is still shrouded in secrecy. The development of its own space launch vehicle, which could be used to launch its own satellites, began after the establishment of the Iranian Space Agency in 2004. On 25 February...
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...
September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
... a runway and return to that same runway, having delivered a payload to orbit, is the ultimate space launch technology. Perhaps that is why serious engineering concepts have been published on the subject since the early ...
