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YouTube channel “Hazegrayart” has created more than 100 beautifully-rendered videos imagining the launch or operation of some of the weirdest aircraft and spacecraft ever proposed in reality or science fiction.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTa… Continue reading Gorgeous video imagines doomed Soviet-era hydrofoiling shuttle launch
Back in 2021, we heard how the Mk-II Aurora suborbital spaceplane had made its first test flights … but it was using surrogate jet engines. Now, however, the vehicle has made its first flights using an actual rocket engine.Continue ReadingCategory: Spa… Continue reading Mk-II Aurora suborbital spaceplane makes first rocket-powered flights
Equipmake says it’s got the lightest and most power-dense electric motor on the market, and if there’s one place where weight is critical, it’s on a launch pad. The company has developed an ultra-lightweight motor for Australia’s first rocket launch.Co… Continue reading Ultra-light electric motor to feed Australia’s first home-grown rocket
Today’s planned launch of the Artemis 1 mission, which incorporates NASA’s most powerful rocket ever, has been cancelled. According to NASA, there was a problem with the engines which couldn’t be fixed within the two-hour launch window.Continue Reading… Continue reading NASA postpones Artemis 1 launch due to engine trouble
NASA has put a patchy few months behind it to officially conclude the testing campaign for its Space Launch System (SLS) and begin preparations for its maiden flight later this year. All going to plan, that unmanned Artemis 1 mission will validate the … Continue reading NASA eyes August launch after concluding tests of SLS Moon rocket
SpinLaunch has released on-board footage from its eighth suborbital flight test, giving us a unique opportunity to imagine what it’d be like to be hurled skyward out of a centrifugal accelerator at more than a thousand miles per hour.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading New video gives first-person view of what it’s like to be SpinLaunched
Rockets are expensive, complex, bad for the environment and prone to occasionally exploding – so alternative launch technologies are popping up to reduce their use. We wrote about SpinLaunch’s remarkable kinetic launch system earlier this week, which s… Continue reading Hypersonic space cannon promises 10 minutes from ground to orbit
NASA has signed up to test SpinLaunch’s extraordinary whirl ‘n’ hurl space launch technology, which accelerates a launch vehicle to hypersonic speeds using an electric centrifuge instead of a rocket, hurling it skyward like a space discus.Continue Read… Continue reading NASA will test SpinLaunch’s ability to fling satellites into orbit
A new company has entered the commercial space race. Startup Radian Aerospace has emerged from stealth to announce it has secured US$27.5 million in seed funding to develop a single-stage to orbit (SSTO) spaceplane called Radian One, which is designed … Continue reading Radian One unveils plans for single-stage to orbit spaceplane
Australian company Hypersonix Launch Systems is not only looking to make the delivery of satellites into orbit cheaper and more accessible, but also greener. It is developing a reusable launch system powered by green hydrogen that would deliver small s… Continue reading Reusable scramjet launch system to pave way for hypersonic airliners