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Space Rocket Concept That Breathes Air for Extra Thrust Will Knock the Wind Out of You
Space Rocket Concept That Breathes Air for Extra Thrust Will Knock the Wind Out of You

7 Mar 2024, 23:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new CGI video shows another of the many rocket concepts that never came to be, the Martin-designed Renova airbreathing rocket

 
Rocket That Could Carry Three School Buses to Space Rolls Out to the Pad
Rocket That Could Carry Three School Buses to Space Rolls Out to the Pad

22 Feb 2024, 07:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Private space company Blue Origin rolls out the first New Glenn rocket for a series of tests at Launch Complex 36 in Florida

 
Soviet Polyblock Rocket Could Have Dropped the Tsar Nuclear Bomb Right on America's Lap
Soviet Polyblock Rocket Could Have Dropped the Tsar Nuclear Bomb Right on America's Lap

2 Feb 2024, 14:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new animation video imagines the flight of a Russian rocket that never came to be, the Tsar bomb-capable R-56 polublock

 
NASA Goes Over the Limits in Testing Artemis Rocket Engines, RS-25s Hold
NASA Goes Over the Limits in Testing Artemis Rocket Engines, RS-25s Hold

4 Dec 2023, 12:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced the completion of the third-of-12 certification tests for the Artemis V moon rocket engines

 
Junkers Saenger Rocket-on-a-Sled Looks Like a Ridiculous Way of Launching a Spaceplane
Junkers Saenger Rocket-on-a-Sled Looks Like a Ridiculous Way of Launching a Spaceplane

20 Nov 2023, 08:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A long-gone German spaceplane design and its wacky way of launching have been brought to life by means of computer animation.

 
RAMFIRE Is a Name So Cool It Can Only Be About New-Aluminum Space Rocket Nozzles
RAMFIRE Is a Name So Cool It Can Only Be About New-Aluminum Space Rocket Nozzles

20 Oct 2023, 11:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and several companies are working on new materials that could allow the simpler and faster manufacturing of rocket components

 
Huge Nexus SSTO Rocket Is How America Should Have Looked Like Going to the Heavens
Huge Nexus SSTO Rocket Is How America Should Have Looked Like Going to the Heavens

25 Sep 2023, 07:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A CGI video shows for the first time in action the Nexus single-stage-to-orbit rocket, the hardware that could have dwarfed Saturn V

 
Methane-Powered Rockets Drag Race to the Sky, Look Like Ships Trying to Escape Disaster
Methane-Powered Rockets Drag Race to the Sky, Look Like Ships Trying to Escape Disaster

17 Mar 2023, 11:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A group of nine rockets that haven't been flown yet in the real world line up to fly together for the first time in incredible animation

 
Space Mining Might Become a Reality – AstroForge Is Preparing for Its First Mission
Space Mining Might Become a Reality – AstroForge Is Preparing for Its First Mission

28 Jan 2023, 23:44 UTC · By: Mircea Mazuru / Recent technological advancements might help make space mining a reality – AstroForge is leading the charge with missions planned for this year

 
Self-Sustaining Rotating Detonation Is What May Power Humanity’s Next Spaceships
Self-Sustaining Rotating Detonation Is What May Power Humanity’s Next Spaceships

26 Jan 2023, 09:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA starts crunching the numbers on rotating detonation rocket engine it tested last year, plans to move forward with the research

 
ULA's Vulcan Centaur Rocket Hits the High Seas on Its Way to First Space Flight
ULA's Vulcan Centaur Rocket Hits the High Seas on Its Way to First Space Flight

13 Jan 2023, 22:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The United Launch Alliance's new rocket has departed the assembly site in Alabama via a ferryboat for spaceships and is heading for Cape Canaveral

 
Virgin Orbit’s Start Me Up UK Mission Reaches Space and Then Fails
Virgin Orbit’s Start Me Up UK Mission Reaches Space and Then Fails

10 Jan 2023, 09:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Orbit successfully launched the Start Me Up mission, the first to take off from British soil, then a technical glitch prevented the rocket to reach orbit

 
Stocky Boeing Rocket Concept Had a Total of 28 Engines, Here Are the True Rings of Power
Stocky Boeing Rocket Concept Had a Total of 28 Engines, Here Are the True Rings of Power

27 Dec 2022, 08:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Boeing Low-Earth-Orbit vertical take-off-vertical landing concept rocket never came to be in the real world, computer power brings it to life

 
Nine-Rocket Skyward “Drag Race” Is the Most Spectacular Thing You’ll See All Week
Nine-Rocket Skyward “Drag Race” Is the Most Spectacular Thing You’ll See All Week

13 Dec 2022, 12:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Nine of the most powerful and fastest rockets ever made go at each other in animated race to the sky of cosmic proportions

 
Virginia Is for Launch Lovers - Electron Rocket’s First U.S. Mission Set for December 7
Virginia Is for Launch Lovers - Electron Rocket’s First U.S. Mission Set for December 7

22 Nov 2022, 14:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Rocket Lab is getting ready to launch its first Electron rocket from U.S. soil, mission called Virginia Is for Launch Lovers set for December 7

 
German Aerospace Startup to Begin Testing the First Staged-Combustion Engine in the EU
German Aerospace Startup to Begin Testing the First Staged-Combustion Engine in the EU

18 Nov 2022, 05:37 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Rocket Factory Augsburg is gearing up to start testing what it claims to be the first staged-combustion engine in the EU, at DLR's test site in Germany

 
Father and Son Launch Physics-Based Rocket Game
Father and Son Launch Physics-Based Rocket Game

20 Sep 2022, 16:05 UTC · By: Cosmin Vasile / Loose Nozzles is a lighthearted yet challenging classic arcade game developed by veteran designer Chris Foster and his son, Ian

 
Elon Musk Talks to Jay Leno About His Plans to Colonize Mars, Shows Him the Rockets
Elon Musk Talks to Jay Leno About His Plans to Colonize Mars, Shows Him the Rockets

18 Sep 2022, 09:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Jay Leno gets an exclusive tour of Starbase, chats with Elon about why space exploration needs revolutionizing and man to become an interplanetary species

 
Blue Origin's 23rd Space Mission Went Bust, In-Flight "Anomally" Triggered Booster Failure
Blue Origin's 23rd Space Mission Went Bust, In-Flight "Anomally" Triggered Booster Failure

12 Sep 2022, 18:26 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Jeff Bezos' space ambitions run into a setback today, as the New Shepard's launch no. 23 failed to reach space, with an emergency detach of the capsule

 
NASA Scrubs Artemis I Launch Again, Hydrogen Leak Comes Back to Haunt the Mission
NASA Scrubs Artemis I Launch Again, Hydrogen Leak Comes Back to Haunt the Mission

3 Sep 2022, 17:06 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / The second launch attempt of NASA's Artemis I mission to the Moon was postponed. The agency encountered a leak while fueling the rocket's core stage