July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... that time, there were several commercial companies building small spacecraft and launching them as a rideshare on conventional launchers. While these small satellites became more advanced, the plans regarding their applications became more ambitious...
22 April 2016
Arianespace's Soyuz Launch Scheduled for Later Today
..., its passengers, the launch site infrastructure and the tracking station network. Designated Flight VS14 in Arianespace's launcher family numbering system, the medium-lift Soyuz carries a mixed payload of the Sentinel-1B C-band radar observation...
13 January 2021
Portugal envision building a spaceport on the Azores islands
... Space Agency said that Europe has at least two main big launchers and a space port but that a gap in medium launchers was evident. Medium launchers would also need infrastructure and space ports to launch rockets to space...
17 November 2022
Study aims to support rocket debris recovery system
... than video, has to date, been limited to major space launchers. "The collection of inflight data using a Remora module will ...cathedral city of Lincoln. "Whilst this project initially targets UK launcher provision and aims to help place the UK in the ...
17 January 2020
TriSept secures dedicated rideshare mission aboard Orbex Prime
... building a multiple spacecraft manifest for a dedicated rideshare mission aboard the reusable Orbex Prime small satellite launcher. TriSept is a long-time go-to launch integration provider in the US space market, enabling the launch of more than 200...
17 November 2020
Vega fails during launch of European Earth observation satellites
... Vega-C, a more powerful version of Vega, will offer an extra 700 kg of capacity and enlarged volume within a wider launcher fairing at a similar cost to Vega – allowing even more passengers per individual rideshare launch at significant lower cost...
