Blue Origin successfully completed their third human spaceflight— the first such mission with six astronauts on board. The astronaut manifest included: Laura Shepard Churchley Michael Strahan Evan Dick Dylan Taylor Cameron Bess Lane Bess “We had a great flight today. This was our sixth flight in what has been a great year for the New […]
Propulsion
Orbex Prime Rocket To Use BioLPG Ultra-Low Carbon Fuel
Orbex and Calor have entered into an agreement that will see the UK gas company supply the ultra-low carbon fuel that will launch the Orbex Prime rocket. Under the terms of the new deal, Calor will supply Orbex with its BioLPG solution, a clean-burning propane produced from renewable feedstocks such as plant and vegetable waste […]
BlogIt: Virgin Orbit’s Next Mission ‘Above The Clouds’ Enters Launch Prep
Coming off flawless back-to-back launches, the Virgin Orbit team has settled into a steady flight preparation rhythm with LauncherOne. The fully assembled rocket that will carry our next customers’ satellites to space left our rocket factory in Long Beach and headed up to the bare concrete pad at the Mojave Air and Space Port that […]
Morpheus Space + Rocket Factory Augsburg To Work Together On Propulsion Tech
Morpheus Space and Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation — the two companies will work closely together in the field of propulsion technology. RFA intends to integrate Morpheus propulsion systems into the orbital stage of its RFA ONE launch vehicle system (pictured above) to improve its overall […]
Orbit Fab + Dawn Aerospace Collaborating To Enable On-Orbit Green Propellant Refueling
Orbit Fab, the Gas Stations in Space™ company, and Dawn Aerospace, a space-transportation company, are collaborating to make on-orbit refueling available to satellites using nitrous oxide and propylene (N2O and C3H6). Orbit Fab, offering a refueling service in space, developed a port known as RAFTI (Rapidly Attachable Fluid Transfer Interface) that is being offered to […]
Spaceflight’s First Multi-Destination, 13 Smallsat, Rideshare Mission + Chemical Propulsion OTV Being Readied For Launch By SpaceX
Spaceflight Inc. will be launching 13 customer payloads, including four microsatellites and nine cubesats to SSO aboard the SpaceX Transporter-3 mission, scheduled to launch no earlier than January 2022 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On this mission, which the company has dubbed ‘SXRS-6,’ Spaceflight will deploy customer spacecraft to two distinct orbits for the first time […]
The University Of Melbourne Is Incorporating DcubeD Actuators For Their Upcoming Smallsat Mission
The University of Melbourne built Australian SpIRIT astronomy smallsat team has selected DcubeD actuators for this upcoming mission The actuators will trigger the deployment of the radiator for the SpIRIT mission that is set to launch in 2022. For the deployment of the Australian-made satellite’s large radiator, the SpIRIT (Space Industry – Responsive – Intelligent […]
The Orbex Environmentally Friendly Prime Rocket To Be Launched From Scotland
The carbon footprint of launching the new Orbex Prime space rocket will be up to 96 percent lower than comparable space launch programs, a new scientific study has revealed. Prime is poised to become one of the most environmentally friendly, orbital launch vehicles ever built, benefiting from the use of renewable, ultra-low-carbon biofuel. It is […]
Orbital Debris Removal Services MoU Signed By Swedish Space + Bradford Space / ECAPS
ECAPS, a leading manufacturer of non-toxic propulsion systems a Swedish space company that was established in 2000 by the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and Volvo Aero, have signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the collaborative offering of orbital debris removal services. Starting in 2024, SSC and Bradford Space will offer orbital debris removal as […]
Neutron Star Systems + RFA Sign LEO Demo Mission Agreement
Neutron Star Systems UG and Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) have jointly signed an agreement for launching a demonstrator mission into LEO. RFA will launch Neutron Star Systems demonstrator mission in Q3 2023 on the RFA ONE launch system. This mission will demonstrate a key subsystem for Neutron Star Systems disruptive electric propulsion system called […]