Even NASA's ultra-expensive and expendable Space Launch System didn't erupt into ... Instead of lining up an orbital-ready vehicle on the launch pad, the company has picked an iterative design ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed ...

Isar Aerospace, a German startup founded seven years ago, is positioned to become the first in a new generation of European launch companies to reach orbit with a privately funded rocket.

as opposed to traditional expendable launch vehicles that are used once and then discarded. The development of reusable space launch vehicles is aimed at reducing the cost of space access by ...

Description: The goal of the Secondary Payload Adapter Concerned with Eliminating Mass and Optimizing Design (SPACEMOD) is to design an optimized Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Secondary ...

The Proton-M is a Russian expendable launch vehicle that belongs to the family of Proton carrier rockets developed in the early 1960s. Proton rockets are used to deliver various space vehicles ...

The Space Launch System (SLS), an expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle that's been in the works for well over a decade, has already experienced years of delays — not to mention billions of ...