November 2018
Connecting and collaborating for innovation
...drive innovation. We need to be imaginative, identifying need and where potential solutions might lie, ensuring that we drive technology to meet those aims. An example is the use of the microgravity environment to understand how the human body adapts...
28 July 2017
Japan's first privately developed rocket launches tomorrow
... four minutes after launch before making a nose-dive into the sea upon its return. Interstellar technologies mission is to “change the economics of Space Launch Services, making it more economic to existing customers and accessible to entirely...
05 January 2018
Gilmour Space completes successful test of hybrid rocket engine
..., it’s notable that only a handful have progressed to actually building, testing and launching a rocket that demonstrates their technology. “Gilmour Space is doing it; and if all goes well, I believe our new engine could well be the largest...
06 May 2019
Japan's first private rocket launches successfully
..., making it the first commercially developed Japanese rocket to reach orbit. Established in 2013 by a former internet maverick, Interstellar Technology Inc. said the unmanned rocket reached orbit after taking off from the company's test site...
20 January 2020
ESA facility begins producing oxygen out of simulated moon dust
... oxygen plant at their Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory, housed within their European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands. Their aim is to efficiently extract oxygen from moondust and make...
04 September 2020
China announces launch of a reusable experimental spacecraft
... the mission, plans to launch a reusable spacecraft in 2020 were revealed by officials from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) back in 2017. At the time, Chen Hongbo, a researcher from the corporation said “unlike traditional...
