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Rocket Report: Japan’s workhorse booster takes a bow; you can invest in SpaceX now
At the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, Orbex chief executive Miguel Bello Mora announced that the company is now targeting next ...
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World’s largest segmented solid rocket motor produces 4 million pounds of thrust
A Virginia-based propulsion-focused company conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA’s Booster Obsolescence and ...
Watch: Falcon 9 launch of Eumetsat MTG-S1 mission from Florida's Space Coast
SpaceX is planning a Falcon 9 launch of the Eumetsat MTG-S1 mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit Tuesday evening. It's ...
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US Army bets on Electra’s hybrid-electric aircraft in $1.9M battlefield push
Electra has received a $1.9 million contract from the U.S. Army to mature hybrid-electric propulsion for battlefield-ready ...
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Local teen graduates from NASA’s Space Camp
Peoria area teen Gabriel Stickhost was among 36 12–14-year-old Young Marines from units across the country who attended and ...
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Watts in waste? US tech could recycle spent nuclear fuel to power deep space missions
US team develops scalable, safe nuclear fuel recycling using advanced tech to cut waste and boost energy recovery.
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Simulation and Analysis of Short Rail Launch for UAV with Rocket Booster - IEEE Xplore
Launching technology with rocket booster is widely used in the launching process of UAV. In this paper, the process of short rail launch with rocket booster was divided into three phases. Through the ...
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Silbervogel - Nazi Germany’s Suborbital Bomber That Aimed for New York
In the final years of World War II, German engineers envisioned the Silbervogel — a rocket-powered spaceplane designed to reach suborbital altitudes and strike distant cities like New York. This ...
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Numerical Model of a Helicon Plasma Thruster - IEEE Xplore
This article is devoted to the presentation of a numerical model of a Helicon Plasma Thruster (HPT) which relies on: 1) the 3-D adVanced fluId dRifT diffUsion plaSma solver (3D-VIRTUS) for the ...