November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
... to 120 km altitude, thereby measuring the entire atmosphere. The T-Minus launch team on the T-Minus Mobile rocket launcher Miniaturised sensor systems and electronics that are available nowadays make it possible to perform a lot of science within...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... was exported to a Singapore-Taiwanese company in 2011. There are several more cases of Japanese satellite manufacturers and launcher systems winning international competitions in Qatar, Turkey, Canada and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Japan has...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
...) projects. As another example of this trend, ESA and Germany’s DLR are supporting European companies in developing micro-launchers via grants, instead of developing their own new smallsat launch systems. Market oriented new applications, like...
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...
