SpaceX’s Starbase rocket launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas is generating local concerns about environmental damage and community displacement.
Private Space Industry
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket successfully achieved orbit this morning, advancing competition with SpaceX and expanding NASA’s commercial launch options.
SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission, launching soon, will push civilian space exploration risks with untested spacesuits and spacewalks.
Starliner is important not just for Boeing and NASA, but also to prove that there can be multiple winners in the commercial space industry.
Launches like the first Starship test are successful failures that will help SpaceX reach its eventual goal of sending astronauts to Mars.
Virgin Orbit’s outlook appears bleak. But space companies have proved remarkably resilient in the past and can come back from the brink.
The extreme velocities and temperatures the vehicle must endure present a major challenge to engineers and makes reentry the most perilous part of a mission.
To intercept the ISS, the capsule must match the station’s speed, altitude, and inclination, and it must do it at the correct time.
The private Chinese space firm iSpace sent two satellites into space last week.
New Delhi has established a new government body to exploit the commercial usage of ISRO products.