October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
...green space technology prototypes and ideas are:6 Minimisation of Earth-based cosmic infrastructure (ECI) areas Development of reusable rockets and one-stage, multi-environment launch vehicles Taking non-functioning spacecraft out of orbit At Aerojet...
November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
... Dutch students from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands decided they wanted to extend their extracurricular activity of rocket development to a professional level. This is how the idea was born to start a sounding...
April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
... of 41,000. It sounds a lot, but what does that actually mean? In real world examples, the Saturn V – the rocket developed to support the Apollo programme – launched a payload that was 1/2000 of what it weighed sitting on the pad. Bear...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
.... Fourteen months after the accident, Brazil successfully launched its first rocket into space on 23 October 2004, from the CLA. A VSB-30 sounding rocket, developed in cooperation with the German Space Agency (DLR), was launched on a suborbital...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
... we recently began constructing at Westcott, some 25 miles from our Culham headquarters, and a site with a long heritage of rocket development in the UK. At the same time as planning the next stages of testing, we have re-aligned the engine...
16 November 2018
Black Arrow looks to raise £120,000 with crowdfunding campaign
... to build this concept engine at the historic Westcott Venture Park - the place where much of the UK's space rocket development and testing has taken place since 1946 and we want to continue in the same vein. There are...
