29 May 2018
Gilmour Space prepares for suborbital hybrid rocket launch
..., which we plan to use in the first stage of our Eris orbital rocket.” 'Eris' is the company's three-stage hybrid rocket dedicated to launching small satellites (up to 400 kg) to Low Earth Orbit by 2020. "It will also be a test of our mobile launch...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... space transportation system that would allow transit to low-Earth orbit (LEO) more routinely, affordably, and safely ... This high launch cost similarly limits private forays into orbit for business and pleasure purposes. The primary contributors to...
12 April 2016
Visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions
... dynamic membrane spacecraft with a ultra-high power-to-weight ratio that can be used for the removal of orbital debris in low Earth orbit (LEO), a concept for reprogramming microorganisms that could use the Martian environment to recycle and print...
19 June 2017
"The most efficient rocket engine in the world" to be launched by ARCA
...to eventually use the engine in its Haas 2CA single-stage-to-orbit rocket (SSTO) – a rocket with exceptional mass ratio, that...SSTO Rocket is able to launch 100 kilograms of payload into low earth orbit at $1million per launch. One of the key factors ...
21 December 2020
Innovative design could see CubeSats "steam-powered"
... only two moving parts and delivers enough total impulse (1,800 Ns with 1 kilogram of water) to maintain a CubeSat in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) altitude of 375 kilometres for more than five years. This represents a huge potential savings in satellite...
29 April 2020
NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics' satellite
... for a 12U bus to carry NASA's payload into low Earth orbit (LEO) including an approximately 800 square foot (74 square...demonstration using NanoAvionics' 12U bus will be the first ever in-orbit trial of NASA's composite booms as well as sail packing ...
