May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... not be able to solve these problems because to achieve the proposed industrialisation of space with the current range of rockets the number of launches will need to be several orders of magnitude greater than we have today. Forecasts on the launch...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
... Lockheed NF-104 could reach a height of 120,800 ft (36.8 km), having accelerated to Mach 2 on jet power before starting its rocket engine. Ascender is like a quarter-scale Anglo-French Concorde supersonic airliner with two seats, a simplified wing...
13 January 2017
New patent granted to 3D printed hybrid rocket fuel engines for low cost access to space
... using this technology provides the structural strength needed to minimize vibration build-up while still enabling the rocket engine to consume high energy solid fuel blends at an accelerated pace,” explained RCI co-founder, President & CTO, Ronald...
15 May 2017
Electron rocket gets ready for first flight test
... said in a statement; “this is a significant milestone for Rocket Lab and the space industry globally. We are about to enter... be printed in as little as 24 hours and it is the first rocket engine to use such a unique cycle. If the up and coming test...
21 November 2019
Orbex opens doors to Europe’s most modern rocket factory
...revealed how it was using 3-D printing to create what are currently the world’s largest single-piece 3-D printed rocket engines. 3-D printing allows the integration of dozens of tiny design details and features without requiring additional processing...
04 September 2020
Rocket Lab secretly launches its first own designed and built satellite
... 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 using it to complete its conventional launch vehicle function to deploy...
