As Europe’s aerospace firms start to realise that they have to get ahead of the curve in space launch technology rather than just be a follower to the likes of SpaceX, they have started investing. The Spanish firm, PLD Space, which is attempting to build a...
Napoleon once said that he did not care if his generals were any good, but rather, whether they were lucky. Todd May, was, and is, both. The very well regarded current director of the NASA Marshall Space Center, and “midwife” of the SLS Heavy Lift launch...
Arianespace announced on 3 May that it had been selected by SITAEL to launch the first small satellite for delivery of STRIVING services on its Small Spacecraft Mission Service Proof of Concept (SMSS POC) flight on a Vega in 2019. The flight will be flown from Kourou...
On 29 May, Virgin Galactic made the second flight of its SpaceShipTwo VSS-Unity rocket plane which ignited its rocket after being dropped by its carrier aircraft VMS Eve. The rocket plane’s rocket engine burned for 31 seconds, with the craft achieving Mach...
The OneSpace Technology firm based in Beijing, China, is claiming to have developed China’s first “all commercial” launch vehicle. The rocket is called Chongqing Liangiang Star-1 (CLS-1), and which is also known as OS-XO, uses solid rocket...
The CEO of the US/Romanian launch provider, ARCA, Dumitru Popescu has had all charges dropped against him after representing himself on a Grand Jury trial on May 11th, 2018. Popesco had been accused of a fraud after allegations were made by his ex-wife and a case...
