Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...
The New Glenn’s second stage captured an image of Earth as it achieved orbit during the rocket’s first flight. Credit: Blue Origin The U.S. has entered a new era of heavy-lift launch—one of ...
Credit: OroraTech WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab announced Jan. 22 a contract ... towards a first launch of its Neutron reusable medium-lift vehicle that could take place as soon as the middle of ...
and Rocket Lab ends up using Neutron to launch similar cargos, it presents customers with a stark choice: Pay $70 million to launch four tons on SpaceX's heavy lift rocket, or pay only $50 million ...
Simply put, it's impossible for any other heavy-launch rocket to compete with SpaceX's Falcon 9 on price, payload, or price-per-kilogram of payload. But what about small rockets? Image source ...
CASC, meanwhile, is developing more powerful and complex full flow staged combustion methalox engines for its Long March 9 super heavy-lift rocket. SAST launched its expendable, kerosene-liquid ...
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket visible as a streak of light from bottom right to top left. Don Pettit / NASA Blue Origin launched its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket for the first time last week ...
Dozens of people were injured after a ski lift collapsed at a resort in Spain, emergency officials told CNN. Some 30 people were injured in the incident, which happened at around 12:00 p.m. local ...
The first flight of the Ariane 6, which succeeds the venerable, now-retired Ariane 5, notably experienced an issue with the rocket's upper stage that prevented it from performing a final deorbit burn.