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Not too long ago, the ability to reuse rockets rather than burn them up in the atmosphere or plunge them into the ocean was a very fanciful concept. SpaceX singlehandedly changed the game in this regard, but it might soon have some company in… Continue reading Rocket Lab lays out plan to recycle used rockets by catching them with helicopters
Last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) completed the first rollout test of its 90 meter (295 ft)-tall mobile gantry, where the next generation of Ariane rockets will be assembled and protected at the launch zone prior to blasting off. The first Ariane 6 rocket is currently slated to make its maiden flight in the second half of 2020, when it will launch multiple satellites for the communications firm OneWeb.
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For around four years, Virgin Orbit has been busy developing a launch system to carry satellites into space using a rocket mounted to the wing of a modified 747. The team has today ticked off what it calls a significant milestone, carrying sa… Continue reading Virgin Orbit releases a rocket from airborne 747 for the first time
In the fall of 1957, it seemed as though the United States’ space program would never get off the ground. The USSR had launched Sputnik in October, and this cemented their place in history as the first nation in space. If that weren’t bad enough, they put Sputnik 2 into …read more
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SpaceX is on a mission to recover and reuse as much of its launch systems as possible, and its remarkable rocket landings continue to demonstrate this vision in spectacular ways. A perhaps less sophisticated part of this strategy involves cat… Continue reading SpaceX catches a falling piece of rocket with a giant net
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket has lifted off again, this time embarking on what the company calls one of the most challenging launches in its history. With a slew of government satellites and important spacecraft onboard, the world’s most powerful operational vehicle took off into the night sky for the first time, on a mission to deliver payloads into three different orbits.
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Continue Reading Falcon Heavy carries 24 satellites into orbit in SpaceX’s “most difficult launch ever”
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Space flight requires quite a lot of single-use machinery, and when you’re talking about multi-million dollar rockets that are used once, that gets pretty expensive and wasteful. Companies like SpaceX have made in-roads towards reusable rockets, and now ESA has outlined its own reusable Space Rider capsule, which would carry scientific equipment to the edge of space and back several times over.
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Continue Reading ESA’s reusable Space Rider capsule would carry equipment to orbit and back
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China has joined the US and Russia as nations with proven capability to launch rockets from sea, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. It was the 306th flight for the China National Space Administration’s line of Long March carrier r… Continue reading China launches its first ever rocket from the sea
Model rockets are a heck of a lot of fun, and not a few careers in science and engineering were jump-started by the thrilling woosh and rotten-egg stench of an Estes rocket launch. Adding simple instrumentation to the rocket doubles the fun by allowing telemetry to be sent back, or …read more
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Engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have now joined together four fifths of the Space Launch System’s (SLS) core stage. The upcoming super heavy rocket is slated to make its maiden flight in 2020, and will provide the… Continue reading Core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System Moon rocket moves closer to completion