Arianespace announced on 3 May that it had been selected by SITAEL to launch the first small satellite for delivery of STRIVING services on its Small Spacecraft Mission Service Proof of Concept (SMSS POC) flight on a Vega in 2019. The flight will be flown from Kourou...
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...
The OneSpace Technology firm based in Beijing, China, is claiming to have developed China’s first “all commercial” launch vehicle. The rocket is called Chongqing Liangiang Star-1 (CLS-1), and which is also known as OS-XO, uses solid rocket...
The CEO of the US/Romanian launch provider, ARCA, Dumitru Popescu has had all charges dropped against him after representing himself on a Grand Jury trial on May 11th, 2018. Popesco had been accused of a fraud after allegations were made by his ex-wife and a case...
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) has formally selected the Liquid Hydrogen/Liquid Oxygen (LOx) RL-10C-X engine built by Aerojet Rocketdyne for the upper stage of ULA’s new proposed Vulcan rocket. In doing so it is thought to have beaten the other main...
NASA has announced that it is to send its “Mars Helicopter”, a small autonomous rotorcraft, to Mars with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020. Started in August 2013 as a technology development project at NASA’s...
