A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years
Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...
Why Do Rockets Curve When Launched Instead Of Going Straight Up?
One might be inclined to think that rockets would launch straight upward, but they don't, they curve along the way, and ...
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SpaceX Starship breaks apart after launch in second failure in a row
"During the event, the FAA activated a Debris Response Area and briefly slowed aircraft outside the area where space ... of thrust — more than twice the power as NASA's Saturn 5 moon rocket ...
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NASA puts biggest rocket pieces together for Artemis II moon mission
The slow race of getting NASA’s Space ... of thrust at liftoff. While SpaceX’s in-development Starship has since surpassed that liftoff thrust, SLS remains the most-powerful rocket to ever ...
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Relativity Space names new CEO during update on Space Coast-bound rocket
It retired the small rocket seen here in this 2022 file photo in favor of a larger Terran R design that aims to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force ... million pounds of thrust on liftoff.
NASA to launch three rockets from Alaska in single Aurora experiment
Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks ...
Firm wins Space Force funding to provide an “aircraft carrier” in orbit
The US Space Force first demonstrated this tactically responsive capability with a launch on Firefly's Alpha rocket in 2023. As part of this "Victus Nox" test flight, a satellite was encapsulated into ...
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 152 — Atomic Rockets II: Nuclear Electric Boogaloo
On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space Research Association's Center for Space Nuclear Research, for a ...