21 November 2018
First captive carry of Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne
... ground in 2017 - a figure that sounds reasonable enough, but falls somewhat short of true potential say Virgin Orbit. The company therefore has designs on scaling up launch rates to an unprecedented frequency and its LauncherOne system ‘is a great...
15 April 2020
Successful test clears the way for Virgin Orbit's first-ever launch
... similar to that which will be carried on operational flights - super cold liquid oxygen. Founded by Richard Branson, Virgin Orbit is a branch of the billionaire’s Virgin Group of companies, which also includes the Virgin Galactic space tourism firm...
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
... paper published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society. All eyes will now be on Solar Orbiter and if the spacecraft’s instruments do detect material from Comet ATLAS, “it will be the first predicted serendipitous comet...
17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
... size of a European country, said mission scientists in a press conference yesterday. The ‘campfires’ were detected with Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager, or EUI instrument, which takes high-resolution images of the lower layers of the Sun...
24 August 2018
Astrocast and D-Orbit announce InOrbit NOW launch agreement
...and early 2020. “Astrocast is pleased to partner with D-Orbit in securing an established, proven launch vehicle for our fourth... mark the fourth deployment of Astrocast’s spacecraft in orbit. During the planned Astrocast mission, the ten nanosatellites...
30 October 2019
Solar Orbiter ready for launch transfer
... Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, in preparations for launch. Solar Orbiter will perform a close-up study of our Sun and the Sun-... of the Solar System. At the same time, Solar Orbiter will acquire in situ data and characterise and calibrate its remote...
