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...
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 2023
From the Earth to Mars
... or robotics agency. Do we really need space agencies? Think about how different space travel would be today if rocket development had remained commercial like all other emerging industries. By now we would have colonies on the Moon and ...
17 January 2025
Investigation launched after SpaceX Spaceship 7 explodes
... after a successful debut launch of the New Glenn rocket developed by rival Blue Origin. Videos posted on social media showed the...orbit. The fifth Jielong-3 (Smart Dragon-3) solid propellant rocket lifted off from a specially converted sea barge off the...
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...
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...
