NASA is announcing today the selection of astronauts who will fly to the International Space Station on the Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon transports, which are scheduled to make the first crew launches next year. The event is webcast from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Rockets
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On Thursday, the Virgin Galactic‘s VSS Unity rocketplane reached Mach 2.47 in speed and 52 kilometers in altitude on the vehicle’s third test flight with the hybrid motor firing. This video shows highlights of the test: If the program continues […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Two big rockets launched successfully this morning, lifting off within about 15 minutes of each other: ** A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 10 Iridium NEXT satellites from Vandenberg AFB in California despite fog so heavy the rocket was not visible […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
[ Update 2: The Stratos III lifted off on Wednesday evening but disintegrated after 20 seconds into the flight.: Stratos III Failure | DARE Last night, we launched our Stratos III rocket attempting to break the European altitude record. The procedures took […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Videos: Highlights of the Blue Origin Mission 9 New Shepard flight
Jul21
on July 21, 2018
at 12:37 pm
Here is a brief video showing highlights of the Blue Origin‘s New Shepard flight on Wednesday: And this video shows some scenes from a pre-launch briefing: An inside look at the Flight Readiness Review leading up to a successful Mission […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
[ Update 11:31 EDT: The flight was a success. The crew capsule fired its abort engine and the capsule reached nearly 120 km, considerably higher than previous flights. (100 km is generally accepted as the border line to space.) Here are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rocket Lab to launch an Electron with 5 payloads including Irvine CubeSat built by high schoolers
Jun22
This evening US time and Saturday afternoon New Zealand time, Rocket Lab will attempt to launch the third Electron rocket into orbit. The rocket is to lift off from the Mahia Peninsula on the east coast of New Zealand‘s North Island. You can watch […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are two new videos that can give one a much better sense of just how big the big rockets that are launching, and in some cases landing, today really are: Bonus: Enjoy more of The Everyday Astronaut‘s soundtrack to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The company Rocket Lab plans to launch an Electron rocket from the Mahia Peninsula on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island during a two week long launch window that opens on June 23rd. This will be the company’s third launch and, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The non-profit organization Base 11 led by Landon Taylor has organized a rocketry competition for university students that is offering a $1M cash prize: The Base11 Space Challenge is a $1 million+ prize for a student-led university team to design, build, and launch a liquid-propelled, single-stage rocket to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Soyuz launcher lifted off today from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), and Sergey Prokopyev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. They will dock to the International Space Station on Friday and join the three crew members already there: Astronauts Safely in Orbit Following Launch […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Virgin Galactic is carrying out a series of test flights of the VSS Unity suborbital rocketplane. Each test is going faster and higher with the aim of reaching space (greater than 80 km height as they define it) before the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Two launches by US commercial rocket companies took place this week: ** A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched on Tuesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the coast of California with seven satellites. First released after reaching a low earth orbit were […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rockets: Antares launch from Virginia + Falcon 9 Blk 5 + Nexø II + Chinese commercial launchers
May18
Some miscellaneous rocket related items: ** Antares/Cygnus Launch: Orbital ATK is set to launch an Antares rocket early Sunday morning, May 20th from Wallops Island, Virginia to send a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. There is a five-minute launch […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest TMRO.tv program is now available in the archive: Relativity: How to print a rocket on Earth and Mars – Orbit 11.19 – TMRO Tim Ellis, CEO of Relativity [Space], joins us to talk about his orbital launch company that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In a heavy fog, as is common where Vandenberg AFB lies on the California coast, an Atlas V rocket blasted off this morning and successfully deployed the InSight spacecraft into a trajectory that will take it to Mars for a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A SpaceX Dragon Cargo spaceship will depart from the ISS on Saturday morning. The Dragon was launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral on April 2 and berthed to the station April 4th. The vehicle delivered over 2.5 mT of supplies, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Videos: Blue Origin New Shepard reaches new max altitude on latest test flight
Apr30
on April 30, 2018
at 8:30 am
On Sunday, Blue Origin flew an un-crewed New Shepard fully reusable rocket vehicle to 107 kilometers (351,000 feet or 66.5 miles), well above the internationally recognized border to space. Before reaching apogee the system split into two parts – the booster […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Wednesday at Cape Canaveral, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully put TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) on the first (big) step to its final operational orbit, which will have an apogee nearly as far out as the Moon and an perigee far […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest TMRO.tv episode is now available: Neumann Space – Orbit 11.14 – TMRO Paddy Neumamm, Chief Scientist and Founder of Neumann Space joins us to talk about their solar-electric ion drive. The Neumann Drive can run on a variety of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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