26 February 2016
SpaceX's Garrett Katzenstein joins Rocket Lab
... Angeles, California, with a subsidiary office headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. It is currently developing the 'Electron' rocket for high-frequency rocket launches with low mass payload to Earth orbit. In April 2015, the company announced the...
28 July 2021
Japan successfully tests rocket engine propelled by shock waves
... said Tuesday. Known officially as a pulse detonation engine (PDE), it was launched aboard a S-520-31 sounding rocket – a powerful single-stage rocket capable of lofting a 100 kilogram payload far above 300 kilometres – from the country’s Uchinoura...
13 March 2015
New rockets on the scene: ESA approves Ariane 6, Vega-C
... Europe has been debating for years what changes are needed to ensure Ariane and other European rockets can meet future market demands, especially lower prices spurred by competition from SpaceX. Germany preferred an evolution...
01 March 2021
Turkey to build a rocket launch site in Somalia to support Moon 2023 landing
... Delta V’s chairman, who announced last year that a rocket engine which uses liquid oxygen and paraffin, a crucial ...(USD) will be awarded to Delta V for development of the rocket, although none of these figures have been officially confirmed by the...
25 January 2021
SpaceX rocket deploys record number of payloads in one flight
...satellites on board, the private space company said. The rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:00 am...taking off, the Falcon 9's main booster that had thrust the rocket to the edge of space separated from the rest of the craft...
September 2017
Space nation set to mark its presence in orbit
... for launch into orbit this autumn by an Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying the ninth Cygnus cargo freighter, which will be on its...) and Jeffery Manber. After launch on an Orbital ATK rocket to the ISS, Asgardia-1 will be deployed from the External...
