19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
...The SLS is an incredible feat of engineering and the only rocket capable of powering America’s next-generation missions that will place the... of both the hardware and the stand. Testing the SLS rocket’s core stage is a combined effort for NASA and its ...
05 March 2020
50th Anniversary of Black Arrow's first successful rocket launch
... aims to be the first UK-based company to fire a rocket, similar in its core propulsion system to the innovative Black Arrow...followed last year's successful launch of Skyrora's second small rocket, providing proof of reusability - the two-meter-long ...
18 January 2021
Virgin Orbit rocket reaches orbit for first time
...ground. In addition to improving the payload capacity of the rocket, this technique allows the LauncherOne system to be the ... no other orbital class, air-launched, liquid-fuelled rocket had successfully reached space before yesterday. “A new gateway...
15 June 2018
Company aims to reach orbit with spinning rocket
...and wind [eliminate] the use of toxic and dangerous rocket fuels." Nonetheless, how exactly the technology works and how...space catapult will operate. “Some people call it a non-rocket launch,” said self-taught aerospace engineer CEO Jonathan Yaney in ...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
...all five recommendations made in the OIG report. Expendable SLS rockets are NASA’s plan for launching heavy payloads, especially the...they didn’t deserve. Boeing, prime contractor for the rocket’s core stage, shut down production in October after ...
14 July 2022
Europe's Vega-C rocket makes successful debut flight
... level of pre-launch tension,” said ESA Director of Space Transportation Daniel Neuenschwander. “Everything was new on the rocket and so we knew there was potential for a number of things to go wrong.” In the event, flight VV21 eventually lifted...
