July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
.... We have seven missions on contract right now, and we’re also planning a crewed version which could take people to a low Earth orbit platform. What we envisage long term is multiple platforms, connected together with nodes and serviced by the Dream...
April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
... launch system altogether. Longshot aims to use a ‘space cannon’, which - it is claimed - would be able to fire a shell into low Earth orbit with a single blast. With this system, a bullet-shaped capsule would be ejected from the gun barrel...
12 November 2018
"Its Business Time" for Rocket Lab's first commercial flight
... commercial launch successfully deploy six small satellites into a low-Earth orbit over the weekend; a move that opens up the... inactive, small satellites using atmospheric drag. The Electron orbital launch vehicle had its inaugural test flight in May ...
05 November 2018
Astroscale secures $50 million to clean low Earth orbit
... achieve these exciting goals. Approximately 750,000 pieces of space debris over one centimeter in diameter are orbiting the Earth, threatening the safety of active spacecraft. Given this active risk of space debris currently...
26 October 2021
Blue Origin and Sierra Space announce development of a commercial space station
...next evolution of the commercial space paradigm by creating the first ever crewed private sector platform in low Earth orbit. The Orbital Reef will carry forward the singular legacy of the ISS, supporting innovative microgravity research, development...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
...systematically tracked have a size greater than 10 cm diameter in low Earth orbit (LEO) and greater than 1 m in geosynchronous orbit (GEO). This means that the whereabouts of the majority of orbital debris is unknown. Space agencies and companies are...
