04 December 2017
After 37 years, Voyager 1 fires up dormant thrusters
... properly for as long as possible. Hoping to resolve the problem, the Voyager team assembled a group of propulsion experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to study the situation. Their solution was to hand over the job...
26 June 2019
LightSail 2 gets ready to make its debut in space
... hoped the US government would invest in making LightSail technology a reality, but after settling on more traditional means of propulsion for their space programmes, the Planetary Society decided to tackle the project themselves. The Society’s first...
15 January 2021
Orion now ready for its Moon mission later this year
..., more than 50 avionics units, navigation and control systems and 29 kilometres (18 miles) of cables as part of the SLS’s propulsion systems. Propellant will also flow through the rocket’s two propellant tanks that can hold 700...
29 November 2021
Skyroot successfully test fires India's first privately developed cryogenic rocket engine
... handling two cryogenic fuels,” V. Gnanagandhi, a Padma Shri awardee and a pioneer of cryogenic rocket propulsion in India, who heads the cryogenic propulsion team at Skyroot, said. Founded in 2018 by former ISRO rocket scientists, Skyroot has also...
13 July 2020
Gilmour Space completes 110-second mission duration hybrid rocket engine test fire
... Space, which is pioneering new single-port hybrid propulsion rocket engines that will be significantly cheaper, greener and...based company is developing a new three-stage hybrid propulsion rocket that will launch small satellites into orbit from ...
March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
... Orbcomm have all had missions curtailed or abruptly terminated due to injection into the wrong orbit. Significant propulsion system leaks have occurred on Chinasat 6A and Eutelsat W3B. Notable issues during deployments have affected Intelsat...
