Interstellar Technologies’ plans to build a privately financed Japanese small launch vehicle have suffered a setback. At 2030 GMT on 29 June, a suborbital flight attempt of its MOMO-2 rocket ended in failure as it crashed back onto its launch pad at Taiki, Hokkaido,...
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...
With assets of less than US$10 million and liabilities of more than twice this amount, XCOR Aerospace filed for bankruptcy after finding that it could not raise further funds. The firm was once a competitor to Virgin Galactic in the suborbital spaceplane space tourism...
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...
During 27 July, the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran), conducted a launch of its “Simorgh” – meaning Phoenix in Farsi – light launch vehicle. The launch was the inaugural mission from the Imam Khomeini Space Launch Center (IKSLC), Semnan, Iran....
Blue Origin took the opportunity in April’s Space Symposium event in Colorado to show off its New Shepard “space tourist” carrying capsule (named after NASA’s first suborbital astronaut) with which it plans to begin suborbital manned test...
