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Rocket Lab has big aspirations when it comes to reusable launch vehicles, and back in May ticked off a huge achievement, successfully catching its Electron booster as it fell from space. The company has since been busy refurbishing the rocket and has n… Continue reading Rocket Lab’s recycled booster engine fires flawlessly after ocean landing
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
The ripples from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continue to expand as Northrop Grumman announces that, in partnership with Firefly Aerospace, the war is forcing it to develop a US-designed and manufactured replacement for the first stage of its Antares r… Continue reading Invasion of Ukraine forces Northrop Grumman to seek US rocket alternative
[T-Zero Systems] has been working on his model Falcon 9 rocket for a while now. It’s an impressive model, complete with thrust vectoring, a microcontroller which follows a predetermined flight …read more Continue reading Mini Falcon 9 Uses NASA Software
Every once in a while, we here at Hackaday stumble across something that doesn’t quite fit in with all the other amazing hacks we feature, but still seems like something …read more Continue reading The Dangerously Delightful Homemade Rockets of Thailand
Orbex has publicly unveiled the full-scale prototype of its reusable Prime rocket on its pad at Space Hub Sutherland in northern Scotland, where the first-ever vertical launch of a satellite from UK soil is set to be carried out in the coming months.Co… Continue reading Orbex unveils the UK’s first vertically-launched orbital rocket
Russia’s loose cannon of a space boss is sending mixed messages about the future of the International Space Station. Among the conflicting statements from Director-General Dmitry Rogozin, the Roscosmos version …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 8, 2022
Rocket Lab has taken an important step forward in its efforts to recover its boosters for re-flight, today capturing its Electron first stage with a helicopter as it hurtled back toward Earth. The attempt didn’t go entirely to plan with the booster pro… Continue reading Rocket Lab uses a helicopter to catch a rocket falling from space
Recycling has quickly become the name of the game in the world of commercial spaceflight, with SpaceX and Blue Origin making reusable launch systems the backbone of their pursuits in the area. Rocket Lab has rocket reusability aspirations of its own, a… Continue reading Rocket Lab prepares its chopper to catch a returning booster in midair
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) are planning to live-stream a rocket launch in Virginia tonight, running hypersonic tests on the Bolt II flight system at speeds up to Mach 6.Continue Readi… Continue reading Pivotal Bolt II hypersonic flight test will be live-streamed tonight