Engine test is one step in return of U.S. ISS resupply capability NASA and it’s commercial partner Orbital Sciences fired dual…
Category: Rockets
Engine Test Brings Wallops Space Station Launch One Step Closer
Later this year a new Goddard Wallops Island launch complex will launch a payload to the international space station which…
SLS J2X Engine undergoes further testing
NASA engineers conducted the first in a new round of tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine Feb. 15 at…
LDCM Launch Separation Video is a Work of Art!
Looking as if it was directed by Stanley Kubrick himself in a scene from 2001 a Space Odyssey this is…
Intelsat 27 lost in SeaLaunch Rocket Failure
SeaLaunch experienced a failure of it’s Zenit-3SL rocket on February 1st 2013. Early indications are that the RD-171M main engine engine shut…
April 2013 IIS Rocket Launch will be Visible from Northeast U.S.
New Launch Complex in Virginia will give Northeast U.S. a great view. The first launch ever to the International Space…
SpaceX test rocket makes vertical takeoff and landing
In November 2012 SpaceX’s Grasshopper vertical takeoff and landing test vehicle (VTVL) flies nearly two stories (17.7 feet/5.4 meters). Duration…
ESA members decide to increase investments in Space
In a two-day Council meeting in Naples, Italy. Ministers from ESA’s 20 member states and Canada today allocated €10 billion…
