29 November 2021
Skyroot successfully test fires India's first privately developed cryogenic rocket engine
... successfully demonstrates the technology that will power the upper stages of its upcoming Vikram-2 orbital launch vehicle, one of three launch vehicles Skyroot has designed specifically for the small satellite market. Vikram-1 can carry a payload...
15 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 8-15
... not yet seen its first flight, but if all goes well, the first Planet launch using Electron small launch vehicle can happen as early as the second quarter of 2017. Aside from Planet, Rocket Lab also has...
28 July 2021
Bezos offers $2 billion in incentives for NASA lunar lander contract
... Heavy, SLS, Vulcan, and New Glenn. The value of being able to fly on many different launch vehicles cannot be over-stated. Launch vehicle flexibility is a massive overall risk reduction for both initial and sustaining operations. It decouples any...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
... participate in our projects and in turn invited Soviet scientists to work on NASA projects. Now, Russia must provide launch vehicles for European projects for the chance to participate in just one or two experiments, or to install its own equipment...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
...list of technologies it deems essential for a journey to Mars which include - ground operations, a heavy-launch vehicle, crew capsule, a deep-space transit vehicle with high-efficiency in-space propulsion and power, protection from radiation, optical...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... space programme achieved good results developing the Sonda sounding rockets, pointing the way to the Satellite Launch Vehicle (VLS) orbital rockets that followed. For example, the final project prior to the development of the VLS...
