September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
.... Perhaps the most ambitious is SpaceX, which aims to build a huge 4,400-satellite constellation using its own Falcon 9 rockets for launch. It plans to offer global internet coverage and to have the network operating by 2024. OneWeb...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...) via the Atlas V booster costs US$20,000/kg while SpaceX promises a reduction to US$1,700/kg with its partly reusable Falcon Heavy rocket. Of course, the costs of onward flight across interplanetary space will be much higher. Artist’s concept...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
... these adjustments SpaceX would have made an EBITDA loss. Thus, even if SpaceX can cut costs on the Falcon 9 now the Block 5 development has been completed, the company’s declining revenue outlook for 2019 implies...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... be from the former GLXP team SpaceIL from Israel, which was launched and deployed from a SpaceX Falcon on 21 February 2019 with an anticipated landing on the lunar surface some weeks later after a series of manoeuvres en route...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... telescopes while we wait, but this can be very difficult for Neptune-sized planets,” added Armstrong. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends NASA’s TESS into space in April 2016. Best of the rest TESS’s first reported discovery...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... flight of the NEXT-C engine. DART is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2021. DART will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The mission is being developed and led for NASA...
