Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines are being targeted to hot fire in unison for the first time on January 17 as part of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Green Run […]
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Iodine Electric Propulsion To Become A Critical Subsystem For SAR Constellations
ThrustMe and Spacety have announced a new space launch, the 3rd in an ongoing series — this time, Spacety launched their Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, Hisea-1, which is the […]
Skyrora Completes Successful Test Firings Of Their LEO Engine
Skyrora has conducted a series of static test fires of their 3rd stage LEO engine, including a vacuum chamber test, designed to replicate space-like conditions to further advance its launch ambitions. […]
Apollo Fusion’s Electric Propulsion System To Empower Spaceflight’s OTVs
Apollo Fusion, Inc. has been selected as the electric propulsion system for Spaceflight Inc.’s Sherpa-LTE. The Sherpa-LTE is a high specific impulse (Isp), xenon propellant, electric propulsion orbital transfer vehicle […]
ArianeGroup Reports Successful Vinci + Vulcain 2.1 Rocket Engine Qualifications
The three engines for Europe’s new Ariane 6 launcher have now completed their qualification tests, following the successful qualification testing of the P120C solid propulsion engine on October 7 at […]
Northrop Grumman Working On Six Abort & Control Motors for NASA’s Orion Spaceflight Capsule
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) will continue supporting NASA’s Artemis missions by providing six additional abort motors and attitude control motors (ACM) for the Orion human spaceflight capsule’s Launch Abort […]
NanoAvionics Contracts Accion Systems For the TILE-3 Smallsat Propulsion System For Upcoming Rideshare Mission
NanoAvionics has signed a contract with Accion Systems to host their propulsion system, TILE 3, on-board the firm’s new rideshare mission for a demonstration flight in 2021. Accion Systems procured […]
The Ariane 6 P120C Rocket Engine for Vega-C Final Test Firing Success
The P120C rocket motor was successfully tested for the third time on October 7 at Europe’s Spaceport solid rocket motor test bench operated by the French Space Agency (CNES). This […]
ThrustMe To Demo First Iodine Electric Propulsion System In Space
After significant support from the French state and the European Commission, ThrustMe has announced their first contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) ARTES C&G program in support of the […]
ESA Signs Up for Exotrail’s Electric Propulsion Systems
Electric propulsion systems used in rockets and satellites are gaining momentum in the industry, which was validated as ESA has signed two contracts with Exotrail. Under the agreement the company […]