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...
22 June 2021
Not Necessarily Rocket Science
.... The author of this little book seeks to prove that the future “doesn’t rest solely on the shoulders of rocket scientists”, citing her own “non-traditional path” as an example. According to her bio, as a popular science communicator, Kellie...
21 December 2015
SpaceX’s postponed rocket launch due for lift off today
...this test would mark the first time in history an orbital rocket has successfully achieved a land landing," SpaceX said in a ... also announced a successfully landing of the New Shepard rocket after a suborbital flight. As the competition heats up,...
