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Moneycontrol.com
April 24, 2018
And, if we can employ a rocket multiple times rather than on a use-and-throw basis, the cost of launching a satellite or a probe would come down drastically. SpaceX has demonstrated the capability of reusing its Falcon rockets successfully. However, the technology is yet to be developed by any other spaceÃâà...
The Mobile Herald
April 24, 2018
... to slow vehicle to 622 km/h. After reigniting BE-3 engine, New Shepard landed safely on deployed skids with speed at 7.1 km/h. Capsule landed correctly on three parachutes. Reusable technology became reality. Read more at Blue Origin historical launch – milestone for reusable rocket technology.
New York Times
April 24, 2018
“The more Musk studied, the more he realized that there had been very little advancement in rocket technology in the past 40 years,” Davenport writes. ... Bezos began putting together a huge tract of ranch land in Texas where he could build his reusable rockets in secret. One of the great scenes inÃâà...
SatNews Publishers
April 24, 2018
On Sunday, April 15 at 7:05 AM MDT, The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT) Rocket Team launched the latest of its student rockets from the Spaceport America Vertical Launch Area. The rocket was developed jointly by NMT and White Sands Research and Developers (WSRDs), a LasÃâà...
OregonLive.com
April 24, 2018
Imagine you're designing a rocket ship. You start to think up what your rocket ship will need to do, how high it will go, what materials it will need, how much it will cost. It all seems to be going smoothly and coming together just the way you expect. To Jama Software, that sign of early success may actually beÃâà...
EdScoop News
April 16, 2018
“Once they saw what the technology could do, it was like a rocket ship taking off,” Adams says. Students in the district have taken that internet access to new levels, he says, by developing their own apps and setting up a technology support desk similar to Apple's Genius Bar, where students replace theÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
April 11, 2018
The company recently invested heavily in its Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in Rocket Center, West Virginia, where it builds rocket motors, warheads and fuses ... The Army, specifically plans to buy more critical missiles and rockets and 148,287 155mm artillery projectiles for which Orbital supplies PGKs.
3D Printing Industry
April 11, 2018
Lead times were also cut from 180 days to just 10 thanks to the technology. Other independent companies working within the field of 3D printing for rocket construction include Aerojet Rocketdyne, Elon Musk's SpaceX, and Blue Origin, where Relativity's CEO was previously employed for 2 years.
Danbury News Times
April 11, 2018
As Shotwell described it, rocket scientists have created and constructed their enormous vehicles from a "clean sheet of paper." Unlike rocket scientists at NASA and companies like Boeing, SpaceX's engineers didn't have any pre-designed technology that they "had to include" in their rockets, according toÃâà...
Popular Mechanics
April 10, 2018
Promontory, Utah is where Orbital ATK manufactures solid rocket motors. This is the place that built several generations of nuclear missiles and Space Shuttle boosters, all using solid fuel. If there's anywhere that could put up a defense for this technology, it's here. Solid rockets have some obvious virtues.
The Verge
April 10, 2018
In the footage, Clarkson attends the test-firing of an RS-68, according to NASA (though a YouTube video from Top Gear incorrectly states he's at a solid rocket booster test). It's an engine used in the Delta IV family of rockets made by the United Launch Alliance. However, the engines can't be seen in theÃâà...
Spaceflight Now
April 10, 2018
A nanosatellite that launched with the Yaogan 31 payloads will conduct unspecified technological experiments in space, Chinese state media reported. ... All of the earlier missions used Long March 4C rockets launched from Jiuquan to place satellite triplets into the same 680-mile-high orbit inclined 63.4Ãâà...
MIT Technology Review
April 3, 2018
Right now, we just don't have rockets with the firepower to match the Saturn V, making cargo-heavy moon trips a challenge. SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket—which recently had a successful test flight—shows promise for future moon trips at a comparative bargain of $90 million, but it still packs onlyÃâà...
GeekWire
April 3, 2018
SpaceX sent nearly three tons of supplies, hardware and experiments to the International Space Station today, using a Falcon 9 rocket booster and a Dragon capsule that ... SpaceX is upgrading its Falcon 9 rocket technology and didn't plan to do further refurbishments on the rocket being launched today.
The Mainichi
April 1, 2018
It so happened that demand for launches of microsatellites had been increasing among the world's developing countries. "Let's build a low-cost rocket making use of Japan's technology," Habu suggested. The No. 4 vehicle of the rocket modified an existing small rocket, using mass-produced, Japan-madeÃâà...
CNNMoney
April 1, 2018
A SpaceX rocket launch grabbed the public's attention once again Friday when a ship wielding a net made a failed attempt to grab the rocket's fairing as it ... The company has always said it wants to reuse as much of its rockets as possible, but recovering and reusing a fairing has never been done before.
Now. Powered by Northrop Grumman. (blog)
March 31, 2018
Commercial space travel is possible as a result of recent advancements in propulsion methods, robotics and communication, plus new solutions such as autonomous rocket-tracking technology, as described by MIT Technology Review. Traditionally, astronauts have undergone extensive training to prepareÃâà...
Fast Company
March 31, 2018
Millions of people watched the launch and saw SpaceX try to bring all three rockets back to Earth, ultimately crashing one just a few meters away from its at-sea ... And that's what Quartz reporter Tim Fernholz explores in his new book, Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race.
CNNMoney
March 31, 2018
SpaceX is well known for landing and reusing rocket boosters to bring down the price of its rockets. But this was ... "Once it gets into the water, it's quite damaging to the electronics and components inside the fairing," said Glenn Lightsey, a professor of aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech. "Most likely if itÃâà...
Florida Today
March 30, 2018
Using AR tech, 321 LAUNCH app lets the user "launch" an animated SpaceX rocket in a creative way. But that's just one of the cool perks: It also launches in real time with live rocket launches. Video by Jessica Saggio, FLORIDA TODAY. FLORIDA TODAYÃâà...
Spaceflight Now
March 30, 2018
India's GSLV Mk.2 rocket takes off Thursday with the GSAT 6A communications satellite. Credit: ISRO. An Indian satellite built as a technological testbed for mobile communications successfully launched Thursday on top of a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, one of 10 space missions planned byÃâà...
Singularity Hub
March 29, 2018
Only the Saturn V, the rocket that helped carry Neil Armstrong and company to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, was bigger and badder, but has long since been retired. Both rockets, however, rely on liquid fuel as propellants. A one-way trip to Mars using conventional chemical rockets could take up toÃâà...
Florida Today
March 28, 2018
Over the past couple months, teams from USA TODAY and FLORIDA TODAY have worked non-stop to blend technologies that will put you in control of a rocket launch from anywhere in the world. It arrives Thursday, March 29, as 321 LAUNCH, a free app for iOS and Android that fuses traditional SpaceÃâà...
Mental Floss
March 27, 2018
On August 24, 2017, Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX launched and landed one of its Falcon 9 rockets. While it's not the most powerful rocket in SpaceX's arsenal, the shockwaves from the trip were strong enough to tear a 560-mile-wide hole through a layer of the atmosphere, Fortune reports.
CNBC
March 27, 2018
The company's founders, Ellis and Chief Technology Officer Jordan Noone, earned their rocket expertise while working at Blue Origin and SpaceX, respectively. Together they dreamed up a rocket that was more than just supplemented by 3-D printed parts — they conceptualized Relativity's Terran 1Ãâà...
Florida Today
March 26, 2018
If you're from the Space Coast, part of the fun of watching a rocket launch is snapping a pic with your camera. Like the iconic trail in the sky, the puffs of smoke and the tiny orange dot slowly ascending upward. Or perhaps a rocket launch selfie, a this-is-where-I-was-when-I-watched-a-rocket-launch kind ofÃâà...
Alabama NewsCenter
March 25, 2018
NASA Marshall advances 3-D printed rocket engine nozzle technology Engineers from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's Propulsion Department examine nozzles fabricated using a new 3-D printing technique. From left are Paul Gradl, Will Brandsmeier, Ian Johnston and Sandy Greene, with theÃâà...
Phys.Org
March 21, 2018
Through hot-fire testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, engineers put this nozzle through its paces, accumulating more than 1,040 seconds at high combustion chamber pressures and temperatures. Now, this technology is being licensed …more. Rocket engine nozzles operate in extremeÃâà...
Ars Technica
March 20, 2018
Marshall Space Flight Center has a long and storied history when it comes to rocket design and production. It was there that Wernher von Braun and his German compatriots helped NASA design the Saturn line of rockets that took humans into deep space and landed on the Moon. There, too, keyÃâà...
MIT Technology Review
March 20, 2018
The upshot: This process can cut the manufacturing time of rocket nozzles from months to weeks. “Our motivation behind this technology was to develop a robust process that eliminates several steps in the traditional manufacturing process,” says Paul Gradl, a senior propulsion engineer at NASA's MarshallÃâà...
GBTIMES
March 15, 2018
Li Hong, the former director of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, has announced that Chinese scientists have built an artificial heart based on technology used to construct rockets, reports Chinese newspaper Science and Technology Daily. Researchers from the China Academy of Launch VehicleÃâà...
ecns
March 14, 2018
China has developed an artificial heart using rocket technology, which is expected to benefit domestic patients by reducing their costs, medical specialists said. The artificial heart has been sent for testing and inspection after thorough experiments on animals, Science and Technology Daily reported onÃâà...
Space.com
March 10, 2018
An Arianespace Soyuz rocket successfully launched a quartet of O3b communications satellites into orbit today (March 9) for the Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES ... "The mission has been a total success," Martin Halliwell, the chief technology officer for SES Networks, said in a post-launch briefing.
CNBC
March 10, 2018
Satellite manufacturer Swarm Technologies is under Federal Communications Commission scrutiny for the unauthorized launch of four prototype satellites in January, according to an IEEE Spectrum report Friday. Swarm launched its first for SpaceBee satellites aboard an Indian-built PSLV rocket despiteÃâà...
Phys.Org
March 9, 2018
It's a bold idea, and no one knows for sure if it will work. Tubular measurement devices will be transported to an altitude of 75 kilometres by a rocket and will then return to Earth undamaged and entirely unassisted. If this technology proves successful, it could be a great new tool for meteorological research.
The Hill
March 7, 2018
It will take far more than that. It will also take far more than one successful rocket launch to rekindle America's leadership in rocketry that we deliberately surrendered after the phenomenal success of the Apollo moon program in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Regaining leadership in this technology-drivenÃâà...
Asia Times
March 6, 2018
It would normally take five years of tests of prototypes before final delivery of the engine, in keeping with the 2030 launch schedule of China's Long March 9, the cachet of the nation's rocket technology with a diameter of 10 meters and capable of catapulting a payload of 100 tons into the low Earth orbit.
Ars Technica
March 6, 2018
Often, there stands a rocket and spacecraft about to reach for the stars, and my task is to do their triumphant flight justice by capturing it and preserving the memory. With such a challenge, where do you even begin? Having photographed three different rockets over nine launches, today I hope to give you anÃâà...
Washington Technology
March 2, 2018
ASRC Federal has confirmed its win of a potential 10-year, $208 million contract to provide test, evaluation and operational support services to the Air Force Research Laboratory. AFRL sought the services to support its efforts to develop new engines and other rocket propulsion technologies for launchÃâà...
CNNMoney
February 22, 2018
Elon Musk's goal of delivering high-speed internet to the world just got a little closer to reality. SpaceX on Thursday launched a rocket carrying two experimental satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellites will test out the technology the company plans to use for its internet service,Ãâà...
Motherboard
February 22, 2018
Early Thursday morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force base carrying two telecommunication satellites to Low Earth Orbit. Those satellites are testing the viability of Starlink, Elon Musk's plan to cover every inch of the Earth with satellite broadband. It's the first step towardÃâà...
The Hill
February 21, 2018
Unfortunately, a few recent headlines and ill-informed opinion editorials have suggested that the success of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy test launch spells trouble for NASA — that somehow the agency's own rocket, the powerful Space Launch System (SLS), is unnecessary. Nothing could be further from theÃâà...
Alameda Sun
February 20, 2018
“SKY7 spots stealthy space startup testing its rocket in Alameda,” the headline announced over Channel 7 reporter Jonathan Bloom's story. The Alameda Sun learned from Bloom's report that the folks behind that rocket test worked for Astra Space. The company designs, tests, manufactures and operatesÃâà...
MIT Technology Review
February 19, 2018
The world's most powerful rocket may be good for more commercial missions than Mars supply trips. One astronomer says it could open access to lots of asteroids on which humans could strike it rich mining metals. Backstory: Earlier this month, SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon Heavy rocket.
KGO-TV
February 16, 2018
The document includes a scale diagram showing its diminutive size and capacity compared to other rockets: The SpaceX Falcon Heavy, with a payload capacity of about 56,000 kg dwarfs the Astra rocket, which is made to carry only 100 kg -- a rocket aimed at launching the new generation of smallÃâà...
CBC.ca
February 8, 2018
The Falcon Heavy may be a remarkable rocket, particularly after its successful maiden launch on Tuesday, but SpaceX has something more impressive on the horizon: the BFR. The BFR — officially the "Big Falcon Rocket," though at first the F stood for a much more crude word — will be a monster thatÃâà...
MIT Technology Review
February 7, 2018
Big and cheap: The rocket hauls a lot and is (comparatively) frugal. As the Economist notes, a Falcon Heavy launch using old rockets costs $90 million and can put a 64-ton payload into low-Earth orbit. That's a quarter the cost of the next most powerful rocket, Delta IV Heavy, which can take just half theÃâà...
CNNMoney
February 7, 2018
The pioneering rocket firm just pulled off the unexpected, and carried out what appears to be a seamless first-ever launch of its massive new rocket, ... That makes SpaceX, the game-changing company helmed by billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the owner of the world's most powerful operational rocket.
The Killeen Daily Herald
December 31, 1999
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles harbor commissioners have approved a permit for Space Exploration Technologies to build a facility on 19 acres of port land to manufacture a Mars rocket that will ... SpaceX founder Elon Musk says the rocket will serve a wide range of missions including going to Mars.
Alabama NewsCenter
December 31, 1999
NASA Marshall advances 3-D printed rocket engine nozzle technology Engineers from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's Propulsion Department examine nozzles fabricated using a new 3-D printing technique. From left are Paul Gradl, Will Brandsmeier, Ian Johnston and Sandy Greene, with theÃâà...
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