Rocket Lab partially recovered Electron for the first time
Rocket Lab successfully recovered the first stage of its space vector, Electron, during the mission “Return to Sender”.The rocket lifted off last Friday morning (3 a.m. CET) from New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula base and managed to deploy 30 satellites in a circular orbit about 500 km above Earth. After pushing the second stage out of […]
SN8 failed third static fire test
Starship is the upper stage of a huge spaceship (boosted by a Super Heavy rocket), currently under design at SpaceX, with the objectives of enhancing human space-flight to the Moon, Mars or even beyond. Right now, SpaceX is making various tests on different versions of Starship: the last major successful update was a 150 meters […]
Stratolaunch starts manufacturing Talon, a hypersonic plane for Mach 6 flights
Stratolaunch LLC is an American aerospace company, which started almost a decade ago in 2011, providing high-speed flight test services. Stratolaunch has started construction on a prototype hypersonic vehicle designed to launch from the world’s biggest airplane. Stratolaunch’s Talon-A will be 28 feet (8.5 meters) long with a mass of 6,000 lbs. (2,700 kilograms) and […]
The selection for the AIAA Mars sample return mission has began
As you all know AIAA – Mars sample return mission project is the first-ever project to be supervised by our PoliSpace organization. It started from hiring the right Projects managers for the team and picking up 7 potential candidates out of 75 applications, to providing technical support when needed. We have highly motivated team members […]
Arianespace’s Vega failed for the second time in eight years
Vega is a 30 m-high, four-stage launch vehicle operating out of Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. It is designed to lift between 300 kg and 1.5 tonnes of payload depending on the orbit and altitude. Two and a half months after Vega’s successful return to flight, the Vega launch vehicle lifted off as scheduled on […]