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...
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...
