One Man Offered to "Buy" Virgin Orbit for $200 Million. He Had $1 in His Bank Account
20 Jun 2024, 09:51 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The SEC is coming after "venture capitalist" Matthew Brown over his "bogus" offer that would have saved Virgin Orbit from shuttering in March 2023
Staged Combustion Engine Fires Up for the First Time, Spits Out 350,000 HP in One Second
12 Jun 2024, 13:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Space startup Stoke announced the completion of the first hot fire test of a full-flow, staged-combustion (FFSC) engine for the Nova rocket
Archimedes 3D Printed Engine Will Send the Neutron Rocket Into Space at Least 20 Times
10 May 2024, 13:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Private space company Rocket Lab announced the completion of the first Archimedes rocket engine, the one meant for the Neutron
Never-Made Russian Moon - Mars Rocket Takes Flight for the First Time in Glorious Sim
6 Apr 2024, 07:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A computer animation shows the Soviet Energia Vulkan rocket that was supposed to to reach Earth's orbit, the Moon, and Mars.
Space Rocket Concept That Breathes Air for Extra Thrust Will Knock the Wind Out of You
7 Mar 2024, 23:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new CGI video shows another of the many rocket concepts that never came to be, the Martin-designed Renova airbreathing rocket
Rocket That Could Carry Three School Buses to Space Rolls Out to the Pad
22 Feb 2024, 07:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Private space company Blue Origin rolls out the first New Glenn rocket for a series of tests at Launch Complex 36 in Florida
Soviet Polyblock Rocket Could Have Dropped the Tsar Nuclear Bomb Right on America's Lap
2 Feb 2024, 14:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new animation video imagines the flight of a Russian rocket that never came to be, the Tsar bomb-capable R-56 polublock
NASA Goes Over the Limits in Testing Artemis Rocket Engines, RS-25s Hold
4 Dec 2023, 12:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced the completion of the third-of-12 certification tests for the Artemis V moon rocket engines
Junkers Saenger Rocket-on-a-Sled Looks Like a Ridiculous Way of Launching a Spaceplane
20 Nov 2023, 08:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A long-gone German spaceplane design and its wacky way of launching have been brought to life by means of computer animation.
RAMFIRE Is a Name So Cool It Can Only Be About New-Aluminum Space Rocket Nozzles
20 Oct 2023, 11:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and several companies are working on new materials that could allow the simpler and faster manufacturing of rocket components
Huge Nexus SSTO Rocket Is How America Should Have Looked Like Going to the Heavens
25 Sep 2023, 07:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A CGI video shows for the first time in action the Nexus single-stage-to-orbit rocket, the hardware that could have dwarfed Saturn V
Methane-Powered Rockets Drag Race to the Sky, Look Like Ships Trying to Escape Disaster
17 Mar 2023, 11:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A group of nine rockets that haven't been flown yet in the real world line up to fly together for the first time in incredible animation
Space Mining Might Become a Reality – AstroForge Is Preparing for Its First Mission
28 Jan 2023, 23:44 UTC · By: Mircea Mazuru / Recent technological advancements might help make space mining a reality – AstroForge is leading the charge with missions planned for this year
Self-Sustaining Rotating Detonation Is What May Power Humanity’s Next Spaceships
26 Jan 2023, 09:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA starts crunching the numbers on rotating detonation rocket engine it tested last year, plans to move forward with the research
ULA's Vulcan Centaur Rocket Hits the High Seas on Its Way to First Space Flight
13 Jan 2023, 22:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The United Launch Alliance's new rocket has departed the assembly site in Alabama via a ferryboat for spaceships and is heading for Cape Canaveral
Virgin Orbit’s Start Me Up UK Mission Reaches Space and Then Fails
10 Jan 2023, 09:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Orbit successfully launched the Start Me Up mission, the first to take off from British soil, then a technical glitch prevented the rocket to reach orbit
Stocky Boeing Rocket Concept Had a Total of 28 Engines, Here Are the True Rings of Power
27 Dec 2022, 08:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Boeing Low-Earth-Orbit vertical take-off-vertical landing concept rocket never came to be in the real world, computer power brings it to life
Nine-Rocket Skyward “Drag Race” Is the Most Spectacular Thing You’ll See All Week
13 Dec 2022, 12:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Nine of the most powerful and fastest rockets ever made go at each other in animated race to the sky of cosmic proportions
Virginia Is for Launch Lovers - Electron Rocket’s First U.S. Mission Set for December 7
22 Nov 2022, 14:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Rocket Lab is getting ready to launch its first Electron rocket from U.S. soil, mission called Virginia Is for Launch Lovers set for December 7
German Aerospace Startup to Begin Testing the First Staged-Combustion Engine in the EU
18 Nov 2022, 05:37 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Rocket Factory Augsburg is gearing up to start testing what it claims to be the first staged-combustion engine in the EU, at DLR's test site in Germany