Every year Seradata publishes its analysis of how well different nations are doing in the “great space race”. In this, we limit our analysis to manned spaceflight and to its two main exploratory targets: a return to the Moon and setting foot on Mars. On...
When you are a teenage youngster you have big dreams. In between wishing for, but sadly never getting, the (slightly older) girl next door, and wanting a James Bond-like Lotus Esprit sports car, your then keen young correspondent also had dreams about walking on the...
Vector Space Systems, a microsatellite space launch company, has announced the acquisition of its small space launcher competitor, the Garvey Spacecraft Corporation. Garvey was working on rocket engine technology for its Nanosat Launch Vehicle (NLV) – a two...
The UK small satellite manufacturer, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has signed a contract with Honeywell to supply the VESTA nanosatellite platform, a technology demonstration mission that will test a new two-way VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) payload for the...
The UK Space Agency is investing GBP£4.12 million in a National Propulsion Test Facility at the Westcott centre in Buckinghamshire. In truth this is not a new centre but really a refurbishment of a long standing test centre used by private companies such as Moog (for...
Space has traditionally been very much an “also ran” at the Farnborough International Air Show which remains mainly civil and military aviation orientated. This year was no different, with just a small part of Hall 3 sectioned off from a combined ESA/UK...
