April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
..., or what we call an ‘open spaceport’ that welcomes multiple launch providers. There are more than 100 different launcher programmes worldwide and many are seeking suitable spaceport locations. We’re not going to pick winners or losers because...
18 December 2017
Prometheus to power future European launchers
... engine that is set to power Europe’s future launchers. Prometheus stands for Precursor Reusable Oxygen METHan cost ...nine million euros. “Prometheus will power Europe's future launchers, forging a path of continuous improvement in competitiveness,”...
29 September 2016
Moraliss-NERVA nanosatellite launcher project announced
... National Agency for Scientific Research, has began its sponsorship of NERVA, a Romanian orbital nanosatellite launcher. The launcher is currently in development by a joint team of professors and students from the Politehnica University in Bucharest...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... enumerative combinatorics - to provide ‘traffic light’ analysis of all the locations, along with several dozen smallsat launchers and proposed launchers. Vega and Ariane 5 launch pads at the Guiana Space Centre near Kourou, French Guiana. The...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... between both parties proceeded smoothly from then on: French engineers at les Mureaux (near Paris) working on Ariane launchers and Russian engineers responsible for Soyuz understood each other perfectly, leading to important collaboration on the new...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
... will be one of perception as much as one of engineering The first orbital spaceplane will be able to undercut any expendable launcher of comparable payload capacity. Lower costs and improved safety will increase traffic levels, which will in turn...
