Category Archives: Rockets

Launch Viewing

Rocket Launch from Virginia View-able from East Coast 11/19

Launch SUCCESS! Read the Launch Viewing Report from the East Coast. Update 7:19 pm Launch slipped until 8:15pm due to an issue at a tracking station which has been resolved….

Maven on Launch Pad In Florida

MARS MAVEN Mission is GO for November 18th Launch

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution  or MAVEN has been given a 60 percent chance for favorable weather by forecasters at the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron. The launch…

SpaceX Grasshopper Test Flight 10-7-13

SpaceX Grasshopper completes 744m test flight

This video shows SpaceX Grasshopper completing a test flight to an altitude of 744 meters on Monday, October 7th. After reaching the designated altitude it safely returned to the launch…

JAXA Epsilon-1 Rocket Launch

JAXA Launches New Rocket Epsilon-1

JAXA launched a new rocket called the Epsilon Launch Vehicle (Epsilon-1) on September 14th 2014 at 14:00jst. This was the second attempt to launch after a failed attempt which was…

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Japan JAXA set to launch new rocket September 14

After an automatic abort on the first launch attempt of Japans new Epsilon-1 rocket from the Uchinoura Space Center a new launch day of September 14th has been selected. JAXA…

LADEE Launch

LADEE MOON LAUNCH SUCCESSFUL!!

The LADEE Mission to the Moon launched right on time at 11:27 p.m. EDT on Sept. 6 from Pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops…

3d Printer Rocket

3D Printed Parts Used to make 20,000 Pound Thrust Rocket Motor!

Things that make you say Hmmm…printing a 20,000 pound thrust rocket motor….hmmm. I am off to Best Buy to get my first 3D printer!!!! The future is really her once…

LADEE iewing angle above the Horizon

LADEE MOON Launch Will be Seen as Far Away as Maine!

Update 9/6/13 – LADEE Moon launch successful. See Video and read about it. Friday September 6th 2013 millions of people in the Northeastern U.S. will get the chance to see…