15 May 2017
Electron rocket gets ready for first flight test
... will use this information to learn and iterate.” Described as a miniature Falcon 9 in design with its nine Rutherford engines, the Electron rocket, including its fuel tanks, is composed of carbon composite materials enabling a strong and lightweight...
22 May 2020
Virgin Orbit to attempt first orbital launch starting Sunday
...After separation of the first stage, the smaller NewtonFour engine powering its second stage will ignite for six minutes.... cycles, say Virgin Orbit, reducing the time to craft an engine thrust nozzle by an order of magnitude. Should the test launch...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... needs to start with at least 150 people. Social engineering Even with drastic improvements in technology, our best understanding ...diseases or other extreme incidents. These adaptive social engineering principles, in our model, are what create the...
17 July 2017
New company seeks to shake-up satellite launch industry
... had begun testing its new liquid oxygen/liquid methane rocket engine at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. “We are hard at...working together for Blue Origin and SpaceX as propulsion development engineers. The company, according to Ellis, have raised “an ...
26 January 2018
EMPS-9 to be held in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, April 25-26
...members of staff from the University of Portsmouth School of Engineering, which initiated the Workshops in 2010, and from ... numbers are limited, priority is given to specialist engineers and scientists in the fields of spacecraft materials, components...
05 July 2016
Success for JUNO!
... years ago, had great reason to celebrate. NASA’s JUNO mission entered Jupiter’s orbit safely during a 35-minute engine burn, allowing mission scientists to finally exhale and take a much needed sigh of relief. “This is the one...
