07 June 2021
Bezos to join auction winner on first crewed New Shepard flight
... bid submitted by Elon Musk’s aerospace firm, NASA has now halted progress on HLS development – the final mode of transportation that will take astronauts to the lunar surface – following protests submitted by Blue Origin and Dynetics...
17 November 2022
Study aims to support rocket debris recovery system
... or transmit its data, is independent of and non-disruptive to any onboard systems, has an extended standby mode to accommodate early integration and is platform agnostic – having a reconfigurable form factor to accommodate different fairing mounting...
04 February 2018
Australia in Space
... inventors, dreamers and entrepreneurs were inspired by overseas developments to undertake their own rocketry experiments.” This ‘catch-up’ mode soon turned to ‘cutting edge’ research, however, when the UK began a programme to test its Black Knight...
03 August 2018
Space activity at Farnborough FIA 2018
..., the “Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine”. This engine will achieve both air-breathing and rocket modes, allowing for hypersonic air travel at Mach 5, or orbital access velocities of Mach 25 for spaceplanes like “Skylon”. RE are...
11 October 2018
Apollo Program Development Plan
...” (not vehicle) assembly building (VAB). It also contains a two-page fold-out of the “lunar orbital rendezvous mode”, which is an interesting document in itself. But even non-space buffs with a penchant for management systems will...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... has come to an end. Mission engineers confirmed at about 2:30 pm PDT (5:30 pm EDT) Thursday the spacecraft was placed in safe mode, ceasing all science operations. After the decommissioning was confirmed, Spitzer Project Manager Joseph Hunt declared...
