..., the “Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine”. This engine will achieve both air-breathing and rocket modes, allowing for hypersonic air travel at Mach 5, or orbital access velocities of Mach 25 for spaceplanes like “Skylon”. RE are...
...” (not vehicle) assembly building (VAB). It also contains a two-page fold-out of the “lunar orbital rendezvous mode”, which is an interesting document in itself. But even non-space buffs with a penchant for management systems will...
... has come to an end. Mission engineers confirmed at about 2:30 pm PDT (5:30 pm EDT) Thursday the spacecraft was placed in safe mode, ceasing all science operations. After the decommissioning was confirmed, Spitzer Project Manager Joseph Hunt declared...
... allow for more time to secure power grids and critical infrastructure and to put satellites into safe mode. The engineering To achieve the proposed science, this telescope required important new approaches to its construction and...
... the first time: Rocket Lab engineers sent a command to transition the Kick Stage into Photon satellite mode. This action marked the first on-orbit demonstration of Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite as a two-in-one spacecraft, first...