24 August 2018
First flight for EXOS's reusable suborbital rocket due tomorrow
... launch system market doesn’t belong to a select few high-profile companies, US firm EXOS Aerospace Systems and Technologies is making the final preparation for their Pathfinder flight of their reusable Suborbital Autonomous Rocket with GuidancE...
12 November 2018
"Its Business Time" for Rocket Lab's first commercial flight
...Spire Global, Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Fleet Space Technologies and the Irvine CubeSat Stem Program. Hoping to ...hitch a ride with the Electron was a drag sail technology demonstrator, designed and built by High Performance Space Structure Systems...
July 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...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... of research aims to re-orbit and ultimately de-orbit certain common types of space debris. SERC will extend its technology for laser tracking of space debris to the use of lasers to interdict space debris immediately prior to a predicted collision...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...industrial consortium is led by CSL (Centre Spatial de Liége). As seen previously, Proba-3 space segment is driven by the formation flying technology needs. On the other hand, the ground segment is built upon the heritage from previous Proba missions...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
... water-challenged areas of the planet, as well as specially designed water bags that incorporate a compact form of this technology as first-response equipment for natural disasters, refugee camps and civil emergencies. Aquaporin, mWater and Bioclear...