Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong
Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...
Astronomers briefly thought Elon Musk’s car was an asteroid. Here’s why that points to a broader problem
Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...
Dreams of asteroid mining, orbital manufacturing and much more
Orbital manufacturing. Private space stations. Moon buggies. Exploring Mars. All are there, alongside the more humdrum (if ...
Photos: World’s only 12-rotor engine plans to unleash 5,000 horsepower fury
Rob Dahm is refining the unique 15.7-liter Y12 rotary engine, originally designed by Tyson Garvin as a twelve-rotor ...
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5 Never-Made Russian Rockets and Spacecraft That Should Have Killed America's Space Dreams
Animation specialist Hazegrayart put together a video of ten never-made Russian rockets and spacecraft, these are the first ...
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SpaceX Starship rocket 'lost' minutes after booster was caught on the ground
SpaceX's gigantic Starship rocket has been "lost" just minutes into its seventh test flight. The 400ft rocket - the biggest and most powerful in the world - soared from Boca Chica, south Texas ...
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Why LBJ Canceled The Apollo Moon Base
The congressional hearings for NASA’s authorization in 1966 outlined the plans for the base. The mission involved two separate Saturn V launches ... The German rocket scientist has been fixated ...
Fire destroys Starship on its seventh test flight, raining debris from space
The third Starship test flight last March saw the spacecraft reach its planned trajectory and fly halfway around the world ...
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket on first test flight
The Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin sent its massive new rocket into space Thursday — and carried a prototype satellite into orbit thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface. The seven-engine ...
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Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on first test flight
Plans called for the second stage ... the space agency’s successor to the Saturn V for sending astronauts to the moon. The biggest rocket of all, at approximately 400 feet (123 meters), is ...
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket on first test flight
New Glenn is the latest in a series of big, new rockets to launch in recent years, including United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan, Europe’s upgraded Ariane 6 and NASA’s Space Launch System or SLS, the ...
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Jeff Bezos-funded Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket in first attempt
New Glenn is the latest in a series of big, new rockets to launch in recent years, including United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan, Europe’s upgraded Ariane 6 and NASA’s Space Launch System or SLS, the ...