by David Todd | Jan 12, 2016 | Technology
Airbus subsidiary SSTL (Surrey Satellite Technology Limited) has been awarded a grant from the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to develop a new thruster system for spacecraft which uses HTP (High Test Peroxide) – a highly concentrated solution of...
by David Todd | Jan 11, 2016 | History, Technology
Having previous laid off over half its 90 staff in 2011, Bigelow Aerospace, the company which makes inflatable capsules for space use, has again felt the need to cut staff. Approximately one third of its currently employed 150 staff are believed to have been laid off...
by David Todd | Dec 22, 2015 | Launches, Satellites, SpaceX, Technology
At 0129 GMT on 22 December 2015 a SpaceX Falcon 9FT (Full Thrust) launch vehicle took off from the Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida. Aboard the rocket was a payload of Orbcomm commercial communications satellites, which was the first live launch since a launch...
by David Todd | Dec 9, 2015 | China, Commercial human spaceflight, commercial launch services, ESA, History, India, Launches, Military space, NASA, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, SLS, Space Insurance, Space tourism, Spaceport, Technology, Virgin Galactic
The World Launcher Review has technical descriptions and commentaries covering every major orbital launch vehicle flying and in development, including their launch sites and their commercial launch providers. It also has a market analysis and a review of those factors...
by David Todd | Dec 2, 2015 | Launches, Technology
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has scrapped development of its fast response, low cost Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (ALASA) launch vehicle after two subsystem test explosions. The ALASA system used an air-launched 7.3m rocket dropped...
by David Todd | Dec 2, 2015 | NASA, SLS, Technology
During November, NASA selected Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, California, to restart production of the former Space Shuttle main engine – the RS-25D – in its new RS-25E expendable guise engine for the administration’s heavy lift rocket, Space...
