02 April 2021
SNC unveils plan to build its own commercial space station
... for further testing on short-and long-term habitation, the firm said in a statement. The company’s reusable, multi-mission space utility vehicle, Dream Chaser, is key to the endeavour. As well as shuttling private astronauts to and from the...
October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
... the capability to deploy a full range of spacecraft, from ‘cube-sats’ and other small-satellites2 to the largest multi-mission telecommunications spacecraft. Indeed, the UK has a strong and long-standing heritage in most types of space system. The...
08 January 2018
Dream Chaser passes major NASA milestone
...(SNC), the Dream Chaser spacecraft is a reusable, multi-mission space utility vehicle that is capable of transportation services ... a system optimised specifically for either uncrewed or crewed missions, known as the Dream Chaser Cargo System and Dream...
22 April 2016
Arianespace's Soyuz Launch Scheduled for Later Today
... of the environment and for security issues. The three "Fly Your Satellite!" CubeSats are to be released in the mission's second deployment phase, with a perigee of 453 km. and an apogee of 665 km. Fly Your Satellite! is an ESA initiative to offer...
18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
... soil, and store them on the surface for potential return to Earth by a future mission. "The Mars 2020 rover is the first step in a potential multi-mission campaign to return carefully selected and sealed samples of Martian rocks and soil...
24 July 2017
First lunar observatory for Moon's south pole in 2019
... the headlines when it announced that the company had a multi-mission launch contract with Rocket Lab for up to five launches ...hazard avoidance are currently under development to facilitate the mission. Speaking of the recent ILO-1 announcement, ILOA ...