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...
21 November 2018
First captive carry of Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne
... two-stage rocket that is designed to deliver small payloads between 300 - 500 kilograms into orbit, but unlike traditional launch vehicles that take off from a stationary and upright position, the LauncherOne rocket gets a lift into...
21 November 2019
Orbex opens doors to Europe’s most modern rocket factory
... the company is using advanced engineering techniques and materials to create the next generation of renewably-fuelled European orbital launch vehicles. The company also revealed its new Mission Control Centre that will be used to monitor...
July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
..., the combination of soft-cryogenic N2O and HRF-1 trades better than other propulsion systems for a small orbital launch vehicle. Moreover, while N2O has the lowest storage density, it is non-toxic, low hazardous, non-flammable, environmentally...
26 September 2017
First Asian company partners with Blue Origin
... plan to build New Glenn, an orbital launch vehicle to carry people and payloads to low-Earth orbit destinations and beyond. Named after the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, John Glenn, the launch vehicle is designed to be reusable which...
18 July 2018
Boost for UK space sector as Scotland and Cornwall to offer spaceport facilities
... to use a modified Boeing 747-400 aircraft called “Cosmic Girl” – the first stage of its two stage orbital launch vehicle – to carry its LauncherOne rocket to around 35,000 feet over the Atlantic. At around this height, stage two...
