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 ...
April 2025
South Korea’s rising rocket star
...result, he claims that INNOSPACE was “first to actually launch a hybrid rocket… currently the largest in the world at 15 tonnes [of thrust]”. So...from Asia, Europe and Brazil for each of its rocket variants, adding: “We have customers from USA that ...
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...
