The Canadian firm MDA Corp has announced its resuscitated in orbit servicing and repair firm called SIS (Space Infrastructure Servcies) in which it has a minority stake. The firm plans to use a servicing satellite design which it has ordered from SSL (Space Systems...
After a welcoming introduction to the WSRF London event from Chairman Denis Bensoussan, Space Underwriter at Beezley, the launch providers led off proceedings. New entrants Blue Origin and SpaceX dazzled with their slick presentations. A little more measured where...
NASA has been showing of a new concept design for a manned Mars rover at the Kennedy Space Centre’s Visitor Centre. The six-wheeled solar powered design comes from the vehicle design studio of Parker Brothers Concepts. The firm is more used to making...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Boeing to build its new part-reusable experimental spaceplane (XS-1). Called the Phantom Express, it will act as a first stage carrying an expendable upper stage on top that is designed to deliver...
The Blue Origin programme to develop the new BE-4 Methane/Liquid Oxygen burning rocket engine for the reusable first stage of its proposed New Glenn vehicle range had a major set back on 13 May when a key test of its major components ended in explosive failure. The...
The credibility of NASA’s uber-expensive heavy-lift rocket programme, SLS, is in jeopardy. This follows NASA’s admission that its first flight would be delayed for financial reasons and because of the damage inflicted on one of it tanks after it was dropped....
