Spaceflight Inc. has announced that it will launch a new Orbital Transfer Vehicle called the Sherpa-FX on a dedicated rideshare mission on a SpaceX Falcon rocket. This is the first of a planned next-generation of transfer vehicles being develop by Spaceflight Inc.
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NASA has funded massive projects to get us into space. But they also fund much smaller projects to help flesh out a major new private space industry sector.
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There is a lot of water on Earth although in some countries, it is getting harder to access. Water will be needed for many things in the exploration and exploitation of space including drinking water, hydroponic agriculture, and splitting into oxygen and hydrogen for rocket fuel. It is expensive to launch anything into space at this stage of our launch technology.
In 2017, the European Space Agency (ESA) contracted the ArianeGroup to develop Prometheus, a liquid-fueled rocket engine prototype intended to pave the way for the creation of reusable rocket engines. The contract is worth about eighty-five million dollars.
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