Topic: Launch Vehicles
A private rocket development company has struck a deal that could allow for demonstration launches of its reusable suborbital spacecraft from Florida. Masten Space Systems, a private aerospace company based in Mojave, Calif., announced a partnership with Space Florida today (Nov. 22) ...
The latest political nuisance for NASA is that senators and congressmen from Utah are trying to pressure NASA to promise that any new heavy-lift launcher it designs will include derivatives of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters (SRBs). The recent authorisation bill does ...
Two unique launch-vehicle concepts, the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) and Sea Launch, moved ahead. In a more conventional vein, Sea Launch Co., LDC, a Boeing Co. multinational venture, began converting an offshore oil-drilling platform to serve as a launch pad that could ...
The United States has placed in orbit a vast reconnaissance satellite reputed to be the largest eavesdropping device ever launched into space.The largest unmanned American launch vehicle, the Delta-4 Heavy rocket, roared into the the night sky in Cape Canaveral, Florida on ...
Most launch vehicles take off from sites on land, although a few are air- or sea-launched. For example, the additional velocity provided by Earth's rotation is 463 metres per second (1,037 miles per hour) at the European launch base in French Guiana, ...
Although they differ in many details for various vehicles and at different launch bases, the steps needed to prepare a launch vehicle and its spacecraft payload for launch are, in general, similar.. Most often, the different stages and other elements of a ...
Chalk up another successful gliding test flight for SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic's commercial spaceliner built to fly paying passengers on suborbital thrill rides. "Watching SpaceShipTwo going through its test points, circling the field and landing is thrilling indeed, especially due to the sweeping ...
Iran has its sights set on putting an astronaut on the moon by 2025, after becoming the first Islamic nation to put its own payload into space last year. Iran's motivations for a space program are most likely practical: Iran announced it ...
In conjunction with the 50th year of powering the Delta-family of rockets, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne celebrated the 350th launch of a Delta rocket today by successfully helping to boost the fourth COSMO-SkyMed Radar Earth-Imaging satellite for the Italian Space Agency and ...
The U.S. Air Force is beginning to weigh options for developing a more capable and affordable upper-stage engine for the Atlas 5 and Delta 4 rockets the service uses to launch most national security payloads. The Air Force plans to continue to ...
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NASA Shuttle-derived Sidemount Heavy Launch Vehicl...
This video depicting NASA's Shuttle-derived Sidemount Heavy Launch Vehicle ...2009-06-23 -
N-1: Soviet Manned Moon Rocket
The N-1 was a Saturn-V sized rocket prepared to land ...2007-02-09 -
H-IIA Launch Vehicle
Japanese Main Large-scale Launch Vehicle H-IIA is Japan's primary ...2007-01-18
