September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
... carry 5500 kg to LEO, 1730 kg to geostationary orbit (GEO) and 760 kg to the lunar surface, and will be followed later by a proposed HELLO-3M, a crewed lunar mission. Naturally, SES is fully aware of the previously mentioned ‘hypersonics sidetrack...
01 January 2020
Virginia Air & Space Center
... attraction is the Apollo 12 command module from the second manned lunar mission. It sits on the floor of a large, open gallery and...has been in gestation!). The museum also houses the lunar module simulator that was suspended from a huge gantry at...
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
... they re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 15 January, 2012. Despite this setback, China has found success with their lunar missions, with the next, Chang’e 5, scheduled for launch later this year. This has prompted the Chinese...
19 November 2020
Agreement to accelerate commercial space growth
... forward to accelerating commercialisation of low Earth orbit as well as development of deep space exploration, including lunar missions in this unique US-Japan strategic private partnership.” TerraMetric is a global space business development firm...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
...EO constellations, and the fourth phase of the China Lunar Exploration Program. Overall, despite the 2020s having begun ... year, and future Chang’e missions, deep space exploration missions and even human lunar missions planned for later in the decade...
06 May 2020
China launches prototype spacecraft on maiden flight of Long March 5B
..., China is now likely to proceed with its Tianwen-1 mission in July. Tianwen-1, meaning ‘questions to heaven’, and ...another Long March 5 rocket to haul its Chang’e 5 robotic lunar mission into space later this year. Chang’e 5, which was postponed ...
