24 May 2017
Tests done on game changing nanotube material for thruster parts
... not trying to be cliché, but that is a game changer!” The tensile properties of the COPV has already been tested as it hitched a ride on a sounding rocket that recently launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. “We’re going to use...
09 January 2019
New self-driving rovers being tested for Mars
... their slower human-reliant cousins as scientists have successfully tested a suite of software systems on a would-be martian...kilometres without human interaction. Roaming around the Ibn Battuta test centre in Morocco is Sherpa; a four-wheeled rover...
28 August 2019
SpaceX's Skyhopper impresses with its highest test flight
... three engines each and more robust landing gear, capable of test flights up to 20 kilometres high. Starhopper is the first ...the prototype’s single one. If everything goes well with the test campaign, Starship and Super Heavy could be ready to fly...
02 May 2019
Blue Origin's 11th test flight ends in success
...vertical landing on a nearby landing pad. The ongoing testing is part of the company’s advancing efforts to prove... students from Huntsville, AL have designed an experiment to test temperature fluctuations in microgravity. The students were excited to ...
29 November 2021
Skyroot successfully test fires India's first privately developed cryogenic rocket engine
...Chandana, cofounder and chief executive at Skyroot Aerospace. “This test makes us one of the very few companies in the...management lead, aerospace systems development lead, avionics integration and test engineers, to name just a few of the available ...
27 June 2017
New Roll-Out Solar Array tested at the ISS
...sitting at the end of a robotic arm outside of the International Space Station where it will undergo a series of operational tests to examine how the system responds to extreme temperatures, microgravity and vibrations. Once retracted, the panel will...
