October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
... the heaviest payloads into orbit and a radical, reusable launcher. The H-IIA rocket developed by NASDA (Japan’s National Space Development Agency) has been Japan’s flagship rocket since its first flight in 2001. In 2007, the launch business for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
07 May 2018
Smallest rocket by Jaxa sets a Guiness World record
...by successfully launching its S5-520-5 vehicle; the smallest orbital rocket to reach space measuring just 9.54 metres in height and ... for rocket development and operation that our country cultivated for years, the unprecedentedly small rocket launch ...
