25 November 2015
Historic landing for private rocket company Blue Origin
Blue Origin, a private company developing vehicles and technologies to enable commercial human space transportation, announced yesterday that its New Shepard space vehicle safely returned to Earth, landing back at the launch site in West Texas after...
13 December 2023
Orbex awarded £3.3 million as part of ESA initiative
..., Orbex, has been awarded £3.3 million in funding from the UK Space Agency (UKSA) as part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) 'Boost!' initiative, part of ESA’s Commercial Space Transportation Services and Support programme designed to further the...
15 March 2017
Zero 2 Infinity successfully launch Bloostar from the edge of space
... with plans to get small satellites into space via alternative means, as Zero 2 Infinity, a company specialised in space transportation systems, successfully launched its first rocket from the edge of space earlier this month. In order to get to the...
09 February 2022
Gilmour looks to Europe for mission critical launcher system
...-C European launch vehicle. NAVIGA is a mission-critical system that combines equally two key elements for future space transport systems: cost reduction, by allowing for mass production, and versatility, thanks to the modular and flexible design...
14 July 2022
Europe's Vega-C rocket makes successful debut flight
... high level of pre-launch tension,” said ESA Director of Space Transportation Daniel Neuenschwander. “Everything was new on the rocket and so... and to allow for longer operational time in space, to enable extended missions. The P120C motor will...
01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
...got their respective NASA financed Commercial Crew Program space transportation modules off the ground, Crew Dragon and ... part of a test to simulate the effects of extended stays in space and sent a humanoid AI robot called Skybot F-850 to the ISS ...
