Tag: launcher
By Tory Bruno
Mars is the reason why everyone is talking about nuclear propulsion. While Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) has various applications, it’s the potential for human exploration of the red planet that has captured the public’s imagination and the...
Australian rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies have successfully completed the final qualification test-fire of its Sirius hybrid rocket engine, paving the way for the country's first orbital launch attempt of an Australian-made rocket next year.
The Queensland-based launch company...
Precious Payload Inc. announces Exos Aerospace Systems & Technologies as a Preferred Partner to facilitate booking commercially available suborbital capacities and help bridge the gap between payload developers and the increased demand for suborbital slots.
Exos Aerospace is entering the market...
The twin solid rocket boosters (SRBs) for the inaugural flight of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket have arrived at the Cape Canaveral launch site.
The Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM) 63XL boosters arrived Oct. 16 at the Florida...
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is configuring an Atlas V 401 rocket atop Space Launch Complex (SLC)-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to carry the next polar-orbiting weather satellite into space for NOAA and NASA and perform an...
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) site in Lampoldshausen successfully tested the upper stage of Ariane 6 for the first time on 5 October 2022.
Original article from DLR
A hot-fire test is a highly demanding...
Alpha becomes the first and only orbit-ready US rocket in the 1300kg payload vehicle class
Firefly Aerospace, a new space leader in launch, spacecraft, and in-space services, announced that its Alpha FLTA002 mission successfully reached orbit and deployed customer payloads,...
Wagner Corporation and Virgin Orbit have signed an agreement to assess a potential LauncherOne demonstration mission from the Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport.
Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB), a leading launch provider, announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...
Southern Launch has continued to expand on the capabilities of the Koonibba Test Range by undertaking another launch campaign to test new technology and systems.
The launch window opened on 29 August 2022 and once again the local Koonibba Aboriginal...
French Guiana, the first Vega C, the new European launcher designed and manufactured by AVIO, launched under the supervision of ESA from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (South America).
“With this inaugural launch officially declared...
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