Science news articles about 'rockets'

After a decade, TGV Rockets has moved to serious design work.

WASHINGTON, May 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency announced the successful test-firing of an old reusable solid rocket motor to determine performance changes caused by aging.

... day when Virgin Galactic is just another spaceline—Tim Bendel believes we need a better rocket engine. Specifically, something that is to the space industry what the internal combustion engine was to ...

Real-life rocket man Yves Rossy soared through the Alps this week on his first demonstration flight with a self-made flying contraption.

SpaceX hopes the third time's a charm for its Falcon 1 rocket.

Dr. Stuhlinger was one of the most prominent of the Germans who brought their skills in rocket science to the United States after World War II.

... Department of Defense to boost the safety and performance of fuel used in thousands of satellites, rockets, missiles and space vehicles. The research that will be applied quickly by NASA and the DoD. ...

... prospect of hunger. And the global food crisis is being felt especially hard where drought, flood or pestilence threatens. But now, satellites are being used in the battle against rocketing prices.

PARIS (Reuters) - A technical hitch scrubbed the launch of an Ariane rocket carrying a British military satellite and a Turkish telecoms satellite hours before its scheduled blastoff, the Arianespace ...

Yesterday, a successful test firing of an Ariane 5 solid rocket booster took place at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. The test was part of the Ariane 5 Research and Technology ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An unmanned Delta rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Wednesday to put a gamma ray telescope into orbit to probe the most ...

A Russian rocket launched six US telecoms satelites into orbit from a missile base in the south of the country on Thursday, news agencies reported.

ORLANDO, Fla., June 22 (UPI) -- A rocket design so far eschewed by NASA could get the United States to the moon faster than current designs and save thousands of jobs in Florida, some say.

NASA unveiled a beefed-up redesign of a proposed moon rocket Wednesday, saying the Ares V spacecraft that is to carry astronauts to the lunar surface in 12 years will be around 38 stories tall and ...

United Launch Alliance has enough Delta 2 rockets for demand through 2015.