In September, Reaction Engines Inc, the US subsidiary of the Oxfordshire, England-based Reaction Engines Limited, announced that it had won a US$2.3 million contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to conduct high-temperature airflow...
SpaceX leader Elon Musk has explained how his vision for travel to Mars encompasses uses in low Earth orbit and on the Moon – and may even act as a point-to-point superfast Earth transportation system. Speaking at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2017),...
As previously flagged by Seradata Space Intelligence (SSI), one possible challenge to reusable launch vehicles is to produce a cheap to build and operate single-stage-to-orbit expendable rocket as proposed by the ARCA Space Corporation. The firm is preparing a 120 km...
The aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has decided to rebrand and reconfigure its satellite bus platform offerings in the following way. The smallest bus now being offered by Lockheed Martin will be called the LM 50. This small spacecraft bus design is being developed...
Global satellite operator SES has ordered seven 702 bus/platform design satellites from Boeing to become a successor to its current O3b Medium Earth Orbit high capacity communications constellation. The new constellation is called O3b mPower and will be launched from...
With Hurricane Irma bearing down on Florida and little chance for another attempt the following day, at 1400 GMT, 7 September, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted-off from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, United States. The mission was for the US Air Force (USAF)...
