DARPA has contracted Vector to help develop a microsatellite launcher. Vector will tweak its first-stage “Vector-R” rocket for use as a second-stage rocket on DARPA’s spaceplane. Second, Vector will ...

Adding a third stage to the Vector-R rocket would bring the total standard contract price to $2 million over $1.5 million. If a three-stage Vector-R rocket was purchased on demand, ...

Welcome to Edition 3.23 of the Rocket Report! Times are good when SpaceX launches a rocket on Thursday evening and United Launch Alliance has the potential to break its streak of scrubs on Sunday.

Stage 3, for which no precise plan exists, ... no one could rule out the possibility that his three-stage rocket might yet reach its destination, i.e., peace in Algeria and cohesion in France.

Vector’s sub-scale launcher, named the P-20, also tested some prototype upper stage engines. The test will help Vector finalize design of its Wolverine rocket, which is based upon technology ...

Rocket Lab, which went public in 2021 through a blank-check merger led by Vector Capital that valued it at $4.1 billion, has launched roughly two dozen missions to orbit for a mix of government ...

A Navy Aerobee-Hi research rocket reached the altitude of 163 miles last week over White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex. This was Aerobee-Hi's fourth try for the single-stage altitude record; three ...

On May 3, space startup Vector had its first successful test flight, although unlike Rocket Lab's, Vector's rocket didn't make it into space. Vector sent out a statement to the press ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

Skyrora XL is a three-stage rocket, with 9 engines powering the first stage and a single engine on the second stage. A smaller engine powers the third stage.

A three-stage Terrier-Terrier-Oriole sounding rocket launched the U.S. Space Force's first small rocket mission on March 3, 2021. (Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Wallops Flight ...