28 June 2021
Loft offers unique satellite ‘rideshare’ opportunities
... Orbital’s own instruments with which it will serve multiple customers. The satellites are among 88 onboard SpaceX’s Transporter-2 flight, itself the company’s second designed specifically as a rideshare. In another sign of the times, it is also the...
25 January 2021
SpaceX rocket deploys record number of payloads in one flight
SpaceX on Sunday launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying a record number of satellites on board, the private space company said. The rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:00 am (1500 GMT), 24 hours after its initial take-off ...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
... elevators and a variety of contemporary rocket launch systems is therefore essential; together they will compose the space transportation architecture for this century. Rockets have three principal strengths: they are successful today, they can...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... communications hub in geostationary orbit. Enter the Scorpion The Scorpion concept was of a crewed general purpose space transport system that could, as a minimum, undertake the post-Apollo programme objectives. The two constraints were, firstly...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... to build from. This means that a substantial amount of investment would be needed. When combined with the heightened transport costs associated with any island, the results of follow-on studies that Portugal is currently undertaking may conclude...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
.... Extension of the by now technologically mature Earth-Moon cycler stations to Earth-Mars orbits for interplanetary passenger transport. Crewed Mars landing craft would then be based on decades of experience with lunar landings and with aerobraking...
