September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
... at more than five times the speed of sound, Mach 5 Between 2021 and 2023, SES accomplished a key milestone by successfully testing its turbo-ramjet using a range of fuels, including hydrogen. The company has also developed...
April 2025
Pioneering human reproduction in space
... Ethical Committee at Ghent University, allowing ground-based experiments at Ghent University Hospital's IVF Lab to begin. This milestone is also facilitating the approval process for using mouse embryos in the ARTIS minilab during SpaceBorn’s second...
April 2025
South Korea’s rising rocket star
... launch of its HANBIT-TLV (Test Launch Vehicle), which founder and CEO Soojong Kim called “a significant milestone as the first privately developed launch vehicle in South Korea”. The suborbital rocket was launched from Alcantara...
October 2025
Europe’s unified vision for space governance and growth
... integration of NTNs with 5G and beyond. She also welcomed the EU Space Act and Vision as “historic milestones,” but urged regulators to apply the guiding principles of proportionality, competition and consistency. “Space safety, sustainability and...
03 September 2015
Orion and NASA’s Mission to Mars at IAC 2015
... provide a safe return to Earth. Having completed its first successful flight test in December 2014, Orion's next milestone will be a flight beyond the orbit of the moon. The challenges, problems and successes of this difficult mission...
05 October 2015
ESTEC opens its doors, 9,000 hi-res Apollo photos go online, and other news from the weekend
... was carrying a Morelos-3 satellite for Mexico’s network of satellites, but The Washington Post reported that the milestone launch came at a time when ULA is facing high pressure due to competition and U.S. government restrictions on the use...
