Space-tech startup Skyroot Aerospace successfully launched Vikram-S, India’s first-ever rocket to space from a private sector company, from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. Vikram S, the first of the Vikram series, was launched under the mission ‘Prarambh’, with the support of ISRO and ...
Skyroot is developing three rockets to carry heavier loads into space, officials said. CEO Pawan Kumar Chandana confirmed that the test-firing of the rocket stage took place at a private test range in Nagpur City, India, according to TechCrunch. The company has received some $15...
India launches first moon rocket, tailing ChinaJordan Lite
A successful touchdown would have made Israel the fourth country to pull off a lunar landing. Despite the crash, the mission is still significant.
This is because that lander, called Nova-C, is set to take a more direct path to the moon. It plans to launch next month on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Nova-C was built by Texas-based space company Intuitive Machines. The company also plans to send the lander to the moon for another...
SpaceX adjusted the trajectory of the rocket to put Dragon on the right path. Dragon berthed with the station, and then splashed down successfully weeks later in the Pacific Ocean near California. The private Dragon capsule built by SpaceX is seen at the end of the International Space ...
The IM-1 mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, through which government contracts are awarded to private companies with the aim of building space flight capabilities through public-private partnerships. Threemore lunar landingsare planned through CL...
Japan’s ispace launched itsHakuto-R Series 1 lander to the moonaboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in December, and since then it’s been heading for insertion into a lunar orbit, which it achieved on March 21. “During the sequence, the lander will perform a braking burn, firing its main...
"The third launch of Nuri is of great significance as it is the first attempt to launch a commercial-grade satellite and the first time a private company will jointly manufacture the homegrown Nuri rocket," Oh Tae-seok, the country's first vice science minister, was quoted as saying in the...
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotichoped to claim that honor last month with its Peregrine lander, but the mission was derailed by a ruptured propellant tank shortly after launch Jan. 9. Two earlier private moon ventures,one by Israeland the other byJapan, also ended in failure. ...