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...
28 September 2022
Firms pioneer embryo conception mission for ‘space mice'
... and compared to control samples. Independence-X is a Malaysian space company that has developed a small launch vehicle called DNLV (Dedicated Nano Launch Vehicle) with a maximum payload of 200 kg and capable of putting satellites into LEO. “The...
04 September 2020
Rocket Lab secretly launches its first own designed and built satellite
... delays associated with having to build their own satellite hardware and procure a separate launch.” Designed for launch on Electron, as well as other launch vehicles, ‘First Light’ paves the way for future, high-energy variations of Photon designed...
16 April 2024
An Introduction to the Spaceport Industry
...However, many other planned spaceports are based on the vertical launch of (mostly) small launch vehicles. Meanwhile, the technology of reusable first stages that return autonomously to the launch site, or an off-site recovery platform, has been ably...
July 2014
Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris
... tracking challenges. In November 2013, a US Minotaur I launch vehicle carried 28 spacecraft into orbit: at that time, this ...in an era where one can expect the launch of one payload on board one launch vehicle. This has been further emphasised by the ...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... - 1970, ELDO, the European Launcher Development Organisation (a precursor of the European Space Agency) conducted its Europa launch vehicle programme, the largest space project undertaken at Woomera. Although ELDO never managed...
