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...
by David Todd | Nov 27, 2015 | exploration, Science, Technology
Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, has, in a news release, applauded the US Senate and President Obama for allowing the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (H.R. 2262) to go into law. While the International Outer Space Treaty officially...
by David Todd | Nov 25, 2015 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology
On 23 November 2015, the Jeff Bezos-led Blue Origin company made a significant advance in its suborbital test programme when its New Shepard space vehicle successfully breached 100km of space by flying to 100.5km (329,839 feet), and returning to Earth to land back at...
