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...
20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
... media CCTV earlier this month, said that the rocket “can send a 150-ton spacecraft into low-Earth orbit, which is equivalent to launching a Tiangong space station at a time.” At the same time, said Lehao, “it can also send...
29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
... mission to the Moon in 1972, the intervening 50 years have been populated with Space Shuttle missions into low Earth orbit and more recently crewed missions from private US space companies such as Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and...
11 March 2019
NASA outlines future Moon to Mars plans
... to take the next giant leap – sending astronauts to Mars. “This budget will build on our successes in low-Earth orbit to create a sustainable exploration campaign that combines NASA’s expertise with that of our commercial and international partners...
25 September 2020
The Consequential Frontier - Challenging the Privatization of Space
... by space professionals keen to highlight the inadequacies of the Outer Space Treaty or the effect of the Kessler Syndrome on low Earth orbit. The author of The Consequential Frontier (one wonders how many more titles can be squeezed from the...
17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
... era in space travel; it also ends the reliance on the US using Russian rockets to get their astronauts into low Earth orbit - an arrangement that has been in place since NASA's Space Shuttle programme ended in 2011.
