10 February 2016
Spaceflight Awarded First GSA Schedule Contract for Satellite Launch Services
... Synch Express,” Spaceflight’s first dedicated rideshare mission, will launch in the second half of 2017 to a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit. The continuing success of Spaceflight has seen the company launch 81 satellites to date with a further 135...
07 April 2017
Astronauts can zip to safety with new Emergency Egress System (EES) from ULA
... by providing the Atlas V rocket to send up to seven passengers, or a mix of crew and cargo, for missions to a low-Earth orbit. With a goal similar to that of SpaceX’s to recycle rockets, Starliner, Boeings first commercial spacecraft, will be able...
03 July 2017
Space for Humanity wants to send you to space
... journey on the World View high-altitude balloon. “Our longer-term vision is to send selected groups into Low Earth Orbit by 2022, the Moon by 2027 and deep space by 2030,” explains Taylor, the organisation’s founder. Taylor is no stranger...
22 May 2020
Countdown to SpaceX’s historic Crew Dragon launch
... 27 May launch will test the Crew Dragon’s systems, with their touchscreen controls, as the spacecraft navigates to low-Earth orbit while marking the first time a private company sends people there or to the International Space Station (ISS...
29 November 2021
Skyroot successfully test fires India's first privately developed cryogenic rocket engine
...-1 can carry a payload of up to 225 kilogrammes to a 500 kilometre sun synchronous polar orbit (SSPO), or 315 kilogrammes to 45 degree inclination 500 kilometre low Earth orbit (LEO). The largest rocket, Vikram-3 can transport 580 kilograms to SSPO...
20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
... media CCTV earlier this month, said that the rocket “can send a 150-ton spacecraft into low-Earth orbit, which is equivalent to launching a Tiangong space station at a time.” At the same time, said Lehao, “it can also send...
