January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... launch vehicles was a horizontal air-launch system. The then Orbital Sciences’ Pegasus is a three stage, solid propellant launcher capable of placing up to 443 kg into low Earth orbit (LEO). Pegasus first flew in 1990, long before SpaceX inspired...
19 June 2017
"The most efficient rocket engine in the world" to be launched by ARCA
...to eventually use the engine in its Haas 2CA single-stage-to-orbit rocket (SSTO) – a rocket with exceptional mass ratio, that...SSTO Rocket is able to launch 100 kilograms of payload into low earth orbit at $1million per launch. One of the key factors ...
29 November 2021
Skyroot successfully test fires India's first privately developed cryogenic rocket engine
...-1 can carry a payload of up to 225 kilogrammes to a 500 kilometre sun synchronous polar orbit (SSPO), or 315 kilogrammes to 45 degree inclination 500 kilometre low Earth orbit (LEO). The largest rocket, Vikram-3 can transport 580 kilograms to SSPO...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... within the next 10 years. Skylon, capable of lifting a 15,000 kg payload to low Earth orbits, will require a more sophisticated kind of operating base to that of the sub-orbital spaceplanes. In fact, it is not really a spaceplane at all, but more...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
... in creating data stacks that can add specific industry and decision intelligence to an array of industries. The low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation-based satellite services - including Internet, IoT, AIS, ADS-B, GPS-RO - integrate into different...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... 3D printed rocket fuel. The company is developing a three-stage rocket capable of launching up to 380 kg into low Earth orbit. Initially, it may not be possible to do it alone, but over several iterations of the Talisman Sabre exercise, Australia...
