03 September 2021
Anomaly causes rocket to explode on maiden flight
... underperforming.” In its official statement, Firefly Aerospace said the rocket lifted off at 18:59 local time after the countdown went ... several seconds after the launch crew announces the rocket finally does reach supersonic speed. A possible wobble...
24 September 2021
New reactor could turn Mars' atmosphere into rocket fuel
... of Mars’ atmosphere so that it could be used as rocket fuel to get astronauts home if humanity ever sets foot on... to another gas is more versatile than just the production of rocket fuel says Wu. Right now our planet is experiencing rising average ...
14 January 2022
Eco fuel to power Orbex rocket
... avoids the massive carbon emissions profiles of old-fashioned fossil fuelled launches still being deployed by many rocket companies today." Alastair Lovell, Head of Sustainable Fuels at Calor, added: "Calor is delighted to partner with Orbex in such...
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...
19 September 2023
The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites
...do so is often rewarded. This book offers the armchair rocket connoisseur the opportunity to get inside these establishments without a ... early monochrome view of the Kennedy Space Center ‘rocket garden’ shows how things have progressed since the 1960s...
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 ...
