12 December 2019
Blue Origin's New Shepard makes 12th test flight
... of the vehicle. One day, a capsule affixed to the rocket's summit will carry six astronaut passengers on a trip that accelerates... with minimal refurbishment between flights. This particular rocket has been an operational payload vehicle for several...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
... so-called NewSpace companies. The change of pace in technology development has been refreshing to say the least: from reusable rockets to suborbital planes, and even convertible cars orbiting the sun near Mars. However, for some companies...
October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
... small for industries worldwide The single-use H3 isn’t the only project on the drawing board, however. A reusable rocket is planned, building on advances made in the past few decades. In the 1970s, the Space Shuttle developers considered...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
... and responsiveness of access to space. SABRE powered launch vehicles would have a number of advantages over existing reusable rocket technology. Aside from the lower launch costs made possible by the reduction in the amount of propellants the...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
.... SpaceX recently succeeded in the Falcon-9 launch of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), the return of the reusable rocket, and then the return of the Dragon capsule - all massive achievements. However, could the much stronger...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... is desirable to have a spaceship with nuclear engines, while at the same time reducing the cost by using reusable rockets. At the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara on 27 September 2016, Elon Musk, the head of SpaceX, presented...
