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Joe Barnard, creator of the Youtube channel BPS.Space was inspired by SpaceX’s success with the real-world landing of Falcon 9, and decided to build a working model of a landable rocket.
[Breaking Taps] has the story of NASA engineers who needed some special cooling chambers in a rocket design for the Space Shuttle. Today you’d 3D print them, but in the 70s, that wasn’t an option.
They’re using liquid fueled engines that can be throttled. [Joe Barnard] isn’t working with the same constraints SpaceX and Blue Origin have. ... He’s building VTOL model rockets.
A Florida team working with the US Air Force says that it's built and tested an experimental model of a rotating detonation rocket engine, which uses a spinning series of chaotic explosions inside ...
Still, the process was a blast and the impressively tall rocket is a wonderful edition to our office. Now we just need to get some model rocket engines and see if we can get the lander to the moon ...
What better way to land a rocket engine than with propellers? By Eric Limer Published: Jun 09, ... Airbus hopes to test the real thing by 2025, and for now it only exists as a scale model.
Home / Firefly Aims To Build the ‘Model T of Rockets ... Firefly announced its first successful ground test of its rocket engine. By 2017, Firefly plans to begin conducting suborbital launches.