January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
...and modernised, including four RS-25 engines and twin five-segment solid rocket boosters. The core stage, which is 64 m tall, is an all...test-fired in 2015 and 2016, and the EM-1 booster forward and aft assemblies are currently being refurbished and ...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
...X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket accelerate after launch from NASA’s B-52B ...launch aircraft. Minutes later the X-43A separated from the Pegasus booster and accelerated to its intended speed of Mach 7 A ...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... 2018, SpaceX landed two of the three first-stage boosters from its Falcon Heavy rocket’s inaugural launch. As of... February 2020, SpaceX had successfully landed 49 first-stage boosters, including landings on its autonomous droneship ‘Of Course I Still...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
...massive exhaust cones of 1960s-era space boosters that remain in orbit. These boosters have already completed half of their Hohmann ...be listed as ‘space junk’? How many discarded boosters have unannounced and undetectable missions as they continue to ...
28 September 2016
Musk unveils ambitious plans for Mars
... with staff standing next to it. The combination of the booster and spaceship is called the Interplanetary Transportation System (ITS) ... Apollo-era Moon programme Saturn V rocket. The booster will have 42 Raptor engines arranged in concentric circles...
03 December 2021
NASA selects three companies to develop commercial space stations
... sustainability of NASA’s exploration programs,” said Wendy Williams, vice president, propulsion systems, Northrop Grumman. “This new booster design will provide additional heavy lift performance and support greater payload volume for deep space...
