It’s an automatic parachute deployment system that you build into the nose-cone of your rocket. The main portion of the build is made out of plastic soda bottles (2 liter size) to end up with a ...

Last fall, they had just successfully tested the TKL-5, a 3D-printed, 5-kilonewton rocket engine the company generated ... supersonic exhaust along a cone-like spike that extends outward.

“But the engine failed. We’ve seen it orbiting ... The piece of the Blue Origin rocket nose cone that washed ashore in the Bahamas was part of the New Glenn spacecraft that launched on its ...