by David Todd | Aug 26, 2015 | Technology
The New Zealand-based rocket firm Rocket Lab, which is building a new very small launch vehicle called Electron has declared what its launch prices will be for customers wanting to loft cubesat size payloads into a 45 degree inclination low Earth orbit as well as to...
by David Todd | Aug 25, 2015 | Russia, Technology
No doubt stimulated by SpaceX’s development of the Falcon 9R and the European proposal to build a reusable stage for the Ariane 6, Sputnik News reports that Russia is to design and build new winged first stage for a partially reusable rocket. The winged stage...
by David Todd | Jul 28, 2015 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital, Technology, Virgin Galactic
The premature in-flight deployment of the feathered tail plane speed braking system was the primary cause of the destruction of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo (VSS Enterprise) on 31 October 2015, the formal investigation into the accident has concluded. The US...
by David Todd | Jul 17, 2015 | ESA, Launches, SpaceX, Technology
While the rhetoric at the third UK Space Conference held in Liverpool in July emphasised downstream space applications as the way to continued growth, there was an acceptance that there was also gap in Britain’s resurgent space portfolio: it does not have a...
by David Todd | Jul 17, 2015 | ESA, International Space Station, Science, Technology
It is a sign that the UK space industry remains in very good health that the third UK Space Conference had attendance up for the third time, this time to 1,100 delegates. As a further indication of the UK’s growing importance in space, the enlarged Conference...
by David Todd | Jul 9, 2015 | ESA, Satellites, Technology
In a public private partnership (PPP) contract, Airbus Defence and Space has received an initial €180 million (US$198 million) contract to develop the first flexible Quantum satellite with Eutelsat and ESA. The spacecraft will have the first reconfigurable...
