Charon Heavy Returns in flames

Many were eyeballing the departure of the Charon Heavy, would it survive rentry this time? The new custom airbrakes should be able to keep the craft straight, at least in theory. At 30km it did start to spin but recovered quickly when the new drogue chute deployed. Still, improvements would be needed to make this […]

The long reach

S005A Supply 03 After the separation of Space City from UKSS, a lot of restructuring would be required and with the aging of the Salyut modules, in time a replacement would be needed. Some of the modules were docked together with disposable maneuvrable units which meant that restructuring would be tough. Supply 03 took off […]

Space X does it again

The Space eXperience company had two major flaws in their business plan. The first was the number of people they could ferry to the hotel at the same time. The current Castor lifted 4, the Charon 3 and typically one would be a scientist, hence a lot of capacity was unused. The second was the […]