11 November 2019
Fourth time rocket reuse for SpaceX mission but concerns still over satellites
... of achievements made by SpaceX including the first re-flight of a recovered fairing – the nosecone – previously flown on Falcon Heavy’s Arabsat-6A mission earlier this year. The nosecone is designed to protect satellites during launch and is then...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... metallic asteroid of the same name. Flying on top of a Falcon Heavy rocket in July, Psyche will fly 450 million kilometres to give scientists... has a helping hand in with its suite of Falcon rockets, the company is also pushing hard with the...
28 July 2021
Bezos offers $2 billion in incentives for NASA lunar lander contract
...system to be capable of flying on multiple launch vehicles, including Falcon Heavy, SLS, Vulcan, and New Glenn. The value of being ...) and locks every trip to the Moon into 10+ Super Heavy/Starship launches just to get a single lander to the surface...
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 depicts...
February 2020
Investigation of the Coriolis effect in rotating space platforms
... obtain a rotation velocity of Ωr=0.26 rad/s. To launch this vessel at the approximate launch price (US$1600/kg) of Falcon Heavy (US$1600/kg), we require a budget of US$8.70 billion. Taking the maximum payload capacity of 63.2 tonnes we would require...
26 June 2019
LightSail 2 gets ready to make its debut in space
Yesterday, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket successfully launched NASA’s STP-2 mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying with it a whole raft of technology ...
