SEE ALSO:SpaceX’s second launch-and-land of a used rocket was a nail-biter But what about the other, less known, less accomplished, yet still important companies out there hoping to leave their marks on spaceflight? Here are a few of the space companies you should be keeping a close ...
But SpaceX is dreaming even bigger than the Falcon Heavy. Last autumn, Musk announced that the company hopes to develop a fully reusable rocket, which would dramatically reduce the cost of lofting humans and cargo into space. A completely reusable spaceflight system — in contrast to the expenda...
SpaceX is a private spaceflight company that regularly delivers payloads to the ISS. Here are the basics about the company and its founder and CEO, Elon Musk.
The launch of commercial rocketCERES-1 Y2 on December 7marked another milestone for private space companies in China, as it delivered five satellites into orbit. It was the second time rocket developer Galactic Energy, a Beijing-based aerospace company, had sent satellites into ...
The company also plans to launch ZQ-2, a liquid-fueled rocket, in 2020. China has more than 60 private companies entering the commercial space industry. They are growing fast and competing in market for launches of small satellites and rockets....
JIUQUAN, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- A private Chinese company sent a suborbital rocket into space at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The SQX-1Z was developed by iSpace, a Beijing-based private rocket developer, founded in 2016 with a research cen...
Details about the new rocket are still pretty light, but the large future rocket is nicknamed the “very big brother” internally. Tweet may have been deleted Bezos’ longterm goal is about as grand as you can get. “I want millions of people living and working in space,” Bezos said....
Founded in 2013, ASTROSCALE's mission is to actively contribute to the sustainable use of the space environment. As such, the ambition of the company is to become a key provider of space debris removal and on-orbit servicing solutions for small satellites and rocket upper-stages. The company ...
’s Space Shuttle program is estimated to have averaged $60,000 per kilogram, whereas the SpaceX rocket that NASA contracted to launch Psyche in October 2023 is capable of costs under $3,000 per kilogram, according to a 2022 research paper in theOxford Review of E...
Have you heard of Interstellar Technologies? They’re the latest private company to launch their own rocket into space. They’re a Japanese company, and like other private space companies, their stated goal is to lower the cost to access space. ...