At the Space Symposium 2017 conference in Colorado, the European Commission (EC) – the European Union’s (EU) executive and policy making arm – announced that it would ask European states to fly on Arianespace Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets. Elzbieta Bienkowska, the EC’s...
The transatlantic aerospace, shipbuilding and defence conglomerate, BAE Systems, has agreed to purchase a 20% shareholding in Reaction Engines Limited for £20.6 million. Following on from work on the HOTOL launch vehicle at British Aerospace and the RB545...
So keen are the boys at the US Air Force Research Laboratory on the UK firm Reaction Engines’ SABRE (Synthetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) heat exchanger technology (this writer is a shareholder) that they are apparently willing to do anything to get their hands on...
Noting the progress that SpaceX is making with its Falcon 9 reusable first stage technology (its first landing attempt is to take place in January), and that India is planning tests of a winged reusable first stage, Europe is, at last, re-examining the case for...
At the UK Launch Symposium held at the Roehampton Vale Campus of Kingston University which met in May, which had most of the UK’s space launch engineers and rocket scientists in attendance, there was a real feeling that the nation needs a launch vehicle –...
