November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... of a modern commercial airliner. Reusability increases launcher development costs: directly, by requiring more robust... over a thousand times the cost of its propellant Most launcher development decisions have been based upon this type of assessment ...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... distance. Omaha Trail tether systems - approximate configuration with a Deimos Dock tether through L1 and Deimos Rail Launcher tethers through L2. Mars Lift tether from martian off-equator base station through Arestation, to counterweight. Phobos...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... flights do not serve the sole purpose of demonstrating the launcher’s readiness. They are a crucial step towards the realisation...point is not that we should not develop super heavy launchers, or that we should refrain from harvesting resources from ...
December 2018
Coffee roasting in space
... into the roasting chamber after its separation from the launcher. The chamber will be filled with a gaseous fluid...to attach the payload to the rocket of choice. Depending on the launcher, the CRC can be attached in many ways. However, one thing ...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
...-1) using a Russian vehicle launched from Plesetsk on 27 October 2005. Much of Iran’s development of ballistic missiles and space launchers is still shrouded in secrecy Iran began its space launch experience with sub-orbital sounding rockets, the...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... of more than $1 billion each. Astra, the small rocket launcher, was valued at $2 billion as the only publicly traded launch...- another Seraphim portfolio company, Spire, and small rocket launcher, Rocketlab. Spire is a space based SAAS business, ...
