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...
07 November 2019
SSTL ships target satellite to Tokyo for Astroscale’s ELSA-d mission
... testing ahead of launch in 2020. The ELSA-d mission is designed to simulate capture of orbital debris and validate key technologies for end-of-life spacecraft retrieval and disposal services. The Target and Chaser satellites will be attached...
16 January 2017
First international contract for commercial rocket launch signed by Denmark and China
Landspace Technology Corporation, a private aerospace business based in Beijing, has signed a contract with a Danish firm to become the first ...
June 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... and that will require innovation in a whole variety of sectors and scientific disciplines. Unlike space rocket technology, all of the technologies listed above have huge commercial potential on Earth. An example of this is that Elon Musk founded not...
