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How Does A Rocket Steer?
When it comes to moving around, most things rely on pushing against the ground or the air or the water, so how do rockets do it in outer space?
Space travel has always hit a wall with slow speeds and massive fuel needs. Gravitic propulsion systems offer a game-changing ...
Imperial College is developing a rocket thruster called the Iridium Catalysed Electrolysis CubeSat Thruster (ICE-Cube Thruster) that is so small that it can only be fabricated using techniques ...
Ursa Major today announced an agreement with launch provider Vector Launch to support Vector's recently awarded U.S. national security contract.
Deep space exploration might no longer be confined to sci-fi after scientists began testing a rocket thruster which promises to boldly go further than ever before.
A Japanese rocket had to be intentionally destroyed last week during launch, marking the first failure of the company’s Epsilon-6 rocket. An initial investigation points to the rocket’s ...
A Japanese propulsion company developing water-based thrusters is set to test its system on a Sony nanosatellite launched earlier in January.
Starfish Space has halted efforts to put its Otter Pup spacecraft back on track to demonstrate an on-orbit satellite rendezvous.
A New Zealand research institute and U.S. commercial firm Nanoracks will send a superconducting magnet technology demonstrator to the International Space Station to test a novel type of propulsion.
Other countries like China have devoted significant resources toward developing space capabilities. That’s why ensuring that the United States is leading in rocket technology is important to ...