29 November 2021
Skyroot successfully test fires India's first privately developed cryogenic rocket engine
... successfully demonstrates the technology that will power the upper stages of its upcoming Vikram-2 orbital launch vehicle, one of three launch vehicles Skyroot has designed specifically for the small satellite market. Vikram-1 can carry a payload...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... the needs of the small satellite market. Rocket Lab successfully reached orbit with the test flight of its second Electron orbital launch vehicle, nicknamed Still Testing, on 21 January 2018. Launched from Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, Still Testing...
25 October 2017
Firm announces plan to launch rockets from Scotland
..., Scotland, this week. Edinburgh-based Skyrora, which is currently developing an orbital launch vehicle and has recently started a series of engine test firings, has plans to launch from the UK and follow in the footsteps of Black Arrow through the...
13 January 2017
New patent granted to 3D printed hybrid rocket fuel engines for low cost access to space
... only two moving parts, thus providing a much safer and consistent performing hybrid rocket engine to power orbital launch vehicles into space. “The fuel grains we are able to produce using this technology provides the structural strength...
25 January 2021
Students vie for places in UK's growing space industry
... technology and hopefully build useful connections for future rocket engineers working on our orbital launch vehicles, which are intended to launch from Sutherland in Scotland." “We’re very excited to be partnering with Orbex on the National Rocketry...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... as the site for the launch, manufacturing and support facilities for its Orbital Launch Vehicle programme. Today, construction for its launch complex is also underway at Space Launch Complex (SLC) 36, the former launch site of Surveyor 1 - the first...
