April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
... at around the 3-4 percent mark. However, it never achieves a ‘nirvana’ stage of near-zero failure rate as happens with launch vehicles. This may be because platforms are very often modified so that later models may have significant differences...
April 2025
Lego’s tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis
... as could reasonably be expected, is the timing for the release of its Artemis model. The SLS is not a proposed launch vehicle – it has actually flown – and the delays to its second mission mean that the Lego version will...
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
...Authorization Center (IN-SPACe) would be formed, to support private entrepreneurs who had come forward to develop end-to-end launch vehicles and satellites, ISRO said. "We want to help Indian startups that are doing pioneering work,” Finance Minister...
15 April 2019
Stratolaunch completes maiden flight successfully
... lands from a runway just like any other aircraft. Roc’s reinforced centre wing can support multiple launch vehicles, weighing up to a total of 227000 kilograms (500,000 pounds) and once the plane reaches a cruising altitude of 10,668...
03 June 2019
Stratolaunch to close operations
... new aerospace company Vulcan Aerospace, a subsidiary of Vulcan, Inc, announced in 2014 that it was considering multiple launch vehicle options over a range of satellite sizes, to rival the likes of SpaceX and Blue Origin – those seen as traditional...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
... of materials into space, which will require a far more efficient and capacious delivery solution than current launch vehicles, including the SpaceX Starship. Here, the authors describe their concept for a Galactic Harbour as part of a Dual...
