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Blue Origin launches and lands sub-orbital rocket for second time
Posted in Science on 24th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
The space venture set up by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is among a handful of companies working to develop reusable rockets.
SpaceX Launch: satellite mission success, booster landing failed
Posted in Hardware on 17th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
Today's mission was successful in sending NASA's Jason-3 ocean monitoring satellite into orbit. However, SpaceX failed to land its rocket stage on the autonomous drone ship.
NASA's heavy lift rocket is running into problems
Posted in Science on 14th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
Short on budget, the Space Launch System reportedly doesn't have a game plan.
SpaceX upgraded the Merlin Rocket Engines
Posted in Science on 6th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
A principal objective of the new design was to facilitate booster reusability for a larger range of missions, including delivery of large satellites to geosynchronous orbit.
Recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 is ready for a static fire test
Posted in Science on 4th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
To confirm that everything still works, SpaceX plans to perform a static test which would involve firing up the rocket again without actually launching it.