September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
.... Fourteen months after the accident, Brazil successfully launched its first rocket into space on 23 October 2004, from the CLA. A VSB-30 sounding rocket, developed in cooperation with the German Space Agency (DLR), was launched on a suborbital...
07 May 2018
Smallest rocket by Jaxa sets a Guiness World record
...by successfully launching its S5-520-5 vehicle; the smallest orbital rocket to reach space measuring just 9.54 metres in height and ... for rocket development and operation that our country cultivated for years, the unprecedentedly small rocket launch ...
16 November 2018
Black Arrow looks to raise £120,000 with crowdfunding campaign
... to build this concept engine at the historic Westcott Venture Park - the place where much of the UK's space rocket development and testing has taken place since 1946 and we want to continue in the same vein. There are...
25 April 2018
New Skyrora launch vehicle focused on UK lift-off!
... an inaugural test of their of sub-orbital launch vehicle. Using technology inspired by Black Arrow – a British satellite carrier rocket developed in the 1960s – the launch vehicle (named Skyrora 1) will run on hydrogen peroxide and kerosene and will...
28 February 2017
The future is here: Elon Musk announces commercial flights to the Moon
... orbit, but neither the Dragon 2 nor the Falcon Heavy rocket (developed using the company's own funds) have yet gone on their..., this will make use of the Falcon Heavy rocket, which was developed with internal SpaceX funding. Falcon Heavy is due ...
26 February 2018
2001: The Lost Science – The Scientists, Influences & Designs
...Krafft Ehricke, Ernst Stulinger and a host of other characters from those early, German-dominated days of rocket development. Interestingly, Kubrick originally intended to include a prologue to 2001 featuring interviews with some top scientific minds...
