18 March 2022
Rocket roll time for NASA’s new Moonshot
... Thursday (17 March) and the 322-foot tall, 3.5-million-pound rocket and spacecraft arrived at the pad in the early hours of ...I launch team through operations to load propellant into the rocket’s tanks, conduct a full launch countdown, demonstrate the...
13 April 2018
Air breathing rocket gets significant funding boost
... a jet engine with the power and high speed ability of a rocket. These scalable engines are capable of Mach 5.4 in air-breathing mode...Mach 3 – three times the speed of sound. However in rocket mode for space flight, SABRE can achieve Mach 25. BAE ...
05 August 2020
SpaceX’s Mars rocket prototype completes important test flight
...reach Mars with ever increasing ambitious flight tests of its Starship rocket. Built in a few weeks by SpaceX teams on the ...out of an entirely different steel alloy designed to make the rockets even sturdier than they already are, says Eric Ralph at ...
17 November 2022
Study aims to support rocket debris recovery system
... the UK spaceflight sector by developing technology to assess the feasibility of recovering payload fairings and other currently discarded rocket parts. Its latest project, codenamed ‘Remora' after the sucker fish that hitches a ride attached to much...
01 April 2020
Rocket Propulsion
...” and perhaps groaned at the thought that it is not scientists who develop rockets but engineers? Well, this is definitely a book for the rocket engineers out there! Developed by its authors for propulsion students, it is dense with graphs...
07 April 2016
Ariane 6 Rocket Still on Schedule for 2020
... had agreed that Safran would pay Airbus 800 million euros ($874 million) in cash, in addition to its rocket-engine manufacturing capability, to become a 50-50 ASL shareholder with Airbus. Since the beginning of 2016, Airbus officials have...
