The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed ...

Even NASA's ultra-expensive and expendable Space Launch System didn't erupt into ... Instead of lining up an orbital-ready vehicle on the launch pad, the company has picked an iterative design ...

Both of the currently active ULA launch vehicles are beginning to phase out ... Vulcan’s first stage will, at least initially, be expendable, potentially evolving towards recovery of the ...

Isar Aerospace, a German startup founded seven years ago, is positioned to become the first in a new generation of European launch companies to reach orbit with a privately funded rocket.

Description: The goal of the Secondary Payload Adapter Concerned with Eliminating Mass and Optimizing Design (SPACEMOD) is to design an optimized Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Secondary ...

So far, the consequences of these failures have not been lethal. But space remains a difficult, hazardous game. Reentering debris from a Falcon 9 upper stage could have struck someone in Poland. God ...

The Proton-M is a Russian expendable launch vehicle that belongs to the family of Proton carrier rockets developed in the early 1960s. Proton rockets are used to deliver various space vehicles ...