23 January 2019
Construction of Russian super-heavy rocket gets approval
...Russia are planning to build a super-heavy rocket that could one day fly ... into a low Earth orbit (LEO). Khrunichev will supply the third stage of the super-heavy rocket as part of this project, while Soyuz-5 elements will be used as the first stage...
28 August 2019
SpaceX's Skyhopper impresses with its highest test flight
.... If everything goes well with the test campaign, Starship and Super Heavy could be ready to fly as early as 2021 SpaceX representatives ...SpaceX have said that in the meantime, Starship and Super Heavy will take over all of the company's usual ...
30 September 2019
Elon Musk unveils SpaceX's massive new Starship
...manoeuvre that SpaceX currently uses to land its existing operational rockets. This entails the ship flying to a high altitude... substantially for the new version of Starship and its Super Heavy booster, which could have as many 37 Raptors. Each...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... to act. A huge amount of interest has been generated in recent months by the flight tests of Starship, SpaceX’s super-heavy rocket designed to enable the colonisation of Mars. Meanwhile, the Mars Society has attracted entries from no fewer than ...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
...contract announcement. The company are likely to use their own Super Heavy rocket to launch Starship and take it to the Moon. “With..., it too can be flown aboard ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket. The three will now compete against each other over the...
22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
....” Previous statements from Russia had suggested that the 2028 launch would be carried out using a Yenisei super-heavy rocket, designed specifically for ferrying cosmonauts to the Moon. However, the Space Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences...
