07 May 2018
Smallest rocket by Jaxa sets a Guiness World record
... for smaller satellites to be placed in orbit on faster and more efficient timescales using a dedicated Nano Satellite Launch Vehicle. JAXA intends to apply the mission results to conduct experiments and observations in space, while lessons learned...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... venture in human exploration: development of the Space Launch System super heavy-lift rocket after an independent commission...for the design, development, test and production of the launch vehicle core stage and upper stages, as well as development ...
22 July 2019
Its lift-off for India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission
... the Apollo 11 mission took just 4 days to reach the Moon, India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk-III) used in the launch, cannot thrust Chandrayaan-2 straight to our nearest celestial neighbour. Instead the spacecraft will...
12 January 2021
Skyrora reveal new UK-built vehicle in live test
... only brings us closer to that point but also takes us beyond simply launch readiness. We have been deliberately quiet about this aspect of our Skyrora XL launch vehicle as we had technical challenges to get it to this stage and we wanted to ensure...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... Force History Office, Washington DC 1998 5 Dissel, Adam, Kothari, and Lewis, M., Investigation of Two-Stage-to-Orbit Airbreathing launch Vehicle Configurations, AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 43, No. 3, 2006. pp. 568-574
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
..., called the Hypersonic Space and Global Transportation System (HSGTS), include: a 100 per cent reusable TSTO launch vehicle; takes off and lands horizontally; air-breathing propulsion on both stages; - Mach 4 turbine engines on the first...
