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Video: Australian Startup Fires Up Phoenix, Its 3D-Printed Liquid Rocket Engine
Video: Australian Startup Fires Up Phoenix, Its 3D-Printed Liquid Rocket Engine

18 May 2022, 02:35 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Gilmous Space successfully developed two types of engines, a hybrid one and a 3D-printed liquid one, for its upcoming rocket launch

 
Orbex Unveils First Full-Scale Prototype of the World's Largest 3D-Printed Rocket
Orbex Unveils First Full-Scale Prototype of the World's Largest 3D-Printed Rocket

12 May 2022, 07:07 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Scotland-based aerospace company Orbex unveiled the first full-scale prototype of the Prime orbital space rocket on its dedicated launch pad.

 
Chinese Startup Conducts the Country’s First Liquid Reusable Rocket Test
Chinese Startup Conducts the Country’s First Liquid Reusable Rocket Test

10 May 2022, 05:17 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / A recent video shows the successful test of a liquid reusable rocket, the first of its kind in CHina, developed by Deep Blue Aerospace

 
DARPA Space-Bound Nuclear Thermal Engine to Fly on Demo Rocket in 2026
DARPA Space-Bound Nuclear Thermal Engine to Fly on Demo Rocket in 2026

9 May 2022, 11:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA pushes the first flight of the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) nuclear rocket engine to 2026

 
Rocket Lab Grabs Falling Booster Mid-Air With a Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter
Rocket Lab Grabs Falling Booster Mid-Air With a Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter

3 May 2022, 14:02 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / A customized Sikorsky S-92 helicopter caught a booster mid-air. This milestone marks a major step for Rocket Lab's effort to make a reusable Electron rocket

 
America’s Never-Made Heavy Lift NLS Takes Flight for the First and Last Time
America’s Never-Made Heavy Lift NLS Takes Flight for the First and Last Time

29 Apr 2022, 12:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Animation video shows how a launch of the never-made National Launch System (NLS) in heavy lift configuration would have looked like

 
SLS Rocket All Locked Up Inside Now, It’ll Take Weeks to Get Out Again
SLS Rocket All Locked Up Inside Now, It’ll Take Weeks to Get Out Again

27 Apr 2022, 09:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA finished moving the Space Launch System rocket from the launch pad to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), to spend weeks there

 
Aphelion Aerospace Conducts Hot Fire Tests for Its Innovative Propulsion Technology
Aphelion Aerospace Conducts Hot Fire Tests for Its Innovative Propulsion Technology

26 Apr 2022, 05:17 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / A Wyoming-based aerospace startup wants to take nanosatellite launch services to the next level, by developing a low-cost, green launch vehicle

 
This Six-Year-Old Designed the Logo for UK’s Historic Satellite Launch
This Six-Year-Old Designed the Logo for UK’s Historic Satellite Launch

13 Apr 2022, 06:15 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Britain will write history later this year with the first-ever satellite launch from its soil, and the rocket will be displaying a unique logo design

 
Rocket Lab's Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter Prepares to Catch a Rocket Mid-Air
Rocket Lab's Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter Prepares to Catch a Rocket Mid-Air

5 Apr 2022, 18:30 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Rocket Lab will use for the first time a cutomized Sikorsky S-92 to snatch the first stage of its Electron rocket as it returns back to Earth from space

 
ESA’s Future Rockets to Be Powered by a New Solid Propulsion “Workhorse”
ESA’s Future Rockets to Be Powered by a New Solid Propulsion “Workhorse”

5 Apr 2022, 03:45 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / The European Space Agency has reached a significant milestone, as the new P120C rocket engine enters production, after several years of development

 
USAF Wants Rockets to Deliver Disaster Relief Cargo Anywhere in the World in One Hour
USAF Wants Rockets to Deliver Disaster Relief Cargo Anywhere in the World in One Hour

1 Apr 2022, 05:03 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Researchers at the University of Central Florida were awarded a grant from USAF for the first time with the goal of researching cargo rockets

 
UK Inches Closer to Launching the First Rocket from British Soil, in a Historic First
UK Inches Closer to Launching the First Rocket from British Soil, in a Historic First

16 Mar 2022, 04:53 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Skyrora officially opens UK's biggest rocket engine testing facility, in Scotland, in preparation for a pioneering launch this year

 
A 3-Ton Mysterious Rocket Body Allegedly Just Crashed Into the Far Side of the Moon
A 3-Ton Mysterious Rocket Body Allegedly Just Crashed Into the Far Side of the Moon

4 Mar 2022, 16:27 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / The upper stage of a spent rocket has reportedly slammed into the far side of the Moon. Scientists will hunt for the signs of the impact

 
Elon Musk Shows Off Giant Robotic Chopsticks Holding the Starship Prototype
Elon Musk Shows Off Giant Robotic Chopsticks Holding the Starship Prototype

11 Feb 2022, 00:15 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has recently showed off a series of images with its Starship prototype fully stacked ahead of the company's update

 
Russian Elon Musk Is Working on Autonomous Hyperplane Destinus, and Progress Is Astounding
Russian Elon Musk Is Working on Autonomous Hyperplane Destinus, and Progress Is Astounding

10 Feb 2022, 07:15 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The Destinus cargo hyperplane was announced at the end of last year, and the Swiss company already has tested a first car-sized prototype, Jungfrau

 
Lockheed Martin to Build Rocket That Will Carry the First Pieces of Mars Back to Earth
Lockheed Martin to Build Rocket That Will Carry the First Pieces of Mars Back to Earth

8 Feb 2022, 14:43 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a $194 million contract to design and develop the MAV, a small rocket set to carry the first samples back to Earth

 
Not Enemies, but Raindrops Could Become a Nightmare for USAF’s Hypersonic Aircraft
Not Enemies, but Raindrops Could Become a Nightmare for USAF’s Hypersonic Aircraft

7 Feb 2022, 09:05 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / The U.S. Air Force is pumping $1 million into a strategic research project that could prevent the massive risks of rain for hypersonic rockets and aircraft

 
U.S. Spy Satellites Successfully Launched for the First Time This Year by SpaceX
U.S. Spy Satellites Successfully Launched for the First Time This Year by SpaceX

4 Feb 2022, 06:23 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / SpaceX has thousands of satellites to deploy this year, but this recent launch was a particularly important one for the nation's space security

 
Russian Scientist Charged With Espionage Related to the Ariane Rocket Development
Russian Scientist Charged With Espionage Related to the Ariane Rocket Development

1 Feb 2022, 05:46 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Europe's most famous and advance vehicle for space launches is at the center of a recent espionage case involving a Russian scientist