July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... using nitrous oxide propellant prepared for shipment to Edwards Air Force Base for testing in December 1997. In the picture...the Mark-III resistojet at the United States Air Force Research Lab at Edwards Air Force Base, in 1998, it was noticed that ...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
... and reports on the topic. Dr Swan graduated from the US Military Academy in 1968 and served 20 years in the US Air Force with a variety of R&D positions in the space arena. In 1988 he joined Motorola to lead the team responsible for the...
22 December 2015
Falcon 9 Launches Successfully
... for the Eastern Range in historic fashion,” said U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, commander of the 45th Space...21 statement. “This was a first for us at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and I can’t even begin to describe the excitement the...
19 February 2018
Space Launch Complex 10: Vandenberg’s Cold War National Landmark
... other writers with a life-long interest in the subject. This book is different in that its author is a former US Air Force space and missile officer and self-confessed ‘amateur space historian’. His experiences as a young lieutenant at Vandenberg...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... of the first dedicated small commercial launch vehicles was a horizontal air-launch system. The then Orbital Sciences’ Pegasus is a three ...protected during ferry operations In 1974, the US Air Force was studying options for making large missiles more...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
...fuel run through a heat exchanger. The engine, called Sabre, is being developed by UK-based Reactions Engines. The US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), under a co-operative research and development agreement with Reaction Engines, is exploring technical...
