Tag: Launch Vehicle Engines
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Relativity Space Shift Towards Blending its Manufacturing Techniques to Speed Up Reusable Rocket Development
Relativity Space announced that they are shifting the strategy in an attempt to accelerate work on the reusable rocket it’s developing. Chief among the changes: adjusting its manufacturing approach to blend its 3D-printing-first approach with traditional metal-bending techniques. The company is going “all in” on developing its larger Terran R rocket, CEO Tim Ellis told…
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56 Starlink Internet Satellites Launched by SpaceX
SpaceX launched its 20th mission of the year, sending 56 of its Starlink internet satellites skyward and landing the returning rocket on a ship at sea. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with 56 Starlink spacecraft lifted off Friday at 11:43 a.m. EDT from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage…
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Ursa Major Successfully Completes Hotfire Test Campaign of Ripley Engine
Ursa Major, America’s leading privately funded company focused solely on rocket propulsion, today announced a milestone in the development of its redesigned 50,000-POUND THRUST “Ripley” rocket engine: successful hot fire tests. The test campaign showed the integrated Ripley engine including turbomachinery, oxidizer-rich pre-burner, and additive-manufactured copper thrust chamber assembly firing as a complete system in…
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Ursa Major to Provide Hadley Rocket Engines for Vector Launch’s US National Security Mission
Ursa Major, one of America’s leading privately funded companies focused solely on rocket propulsion, announced an agreement with launch provider Vector Launch to support Vector’s recently awarded U.S. national security contract. Ursa Major will supply several 5,000-pound thrust “Hadley” engines to power the main stage of Vector-R launch vehicles to demonstrate capabilities for future missions.…
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NASA and DARPA Collaborate to Demonstrate Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine
NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a collaboration to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space, an enabling capability for NASA crewed missions to Mars. NASA and DARPA will partner on the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations, or DRACO, program. The non-reimbursable agreement designed to benefit both agencies outlines…
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GKN Aerospace Signs a Contract with ArianeGroup for Ariane 6 Rocket Engine Subsystems
GKN Aerospace has signed a contract with ArianeGroup to supply the next phase of Ariane 6 turbines and Vulcain nozzles. The contract includes the manufacturing and supply of units for the next 14 Ariane 6 launchers, to be produced from now until 2025. GKN Aerospace, at its Trollhättan site in Sweden, is currently focused on…
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SpaceChain Launches Ethereum Virtual Machine Payload Enabling High-Speed Blockchain Processing in Space
SpaceChain announced that it has successfully launched its second Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) payload into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) for installation via the SpaceX Dragon 2 spacecraft. The mission marks SpaceChain’s seventh successful blockchain payload launch into space, and the second…
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Phantom Space Successfully Conducts Hot Fire Test for its Daytona Launch System
Phantom Space Corporation (Phantom), a space applications company providing launch services and satellite manufacturing to business and government clients, announced that it has successfully conducted hot fire test at Spaceport America in New Mexico. Phantom’s pathfinder test stage, equipped with a single Hadley engine supplied by Ursa Major, completed a 60-second hot fire test to…
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Gilmour Space Successfully Completes Final Qualification Test Fire of Sirius Hybrid Rocket Engine
Australian rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies have successfully completed the final qualification test fire of its Sirius hybrid rocket engine, paving the way for the country’s first orbital launch attempt of an Australian-made rocket next year. The Queensland-based launch company is developing Eris, a three-stage rocket that could provide a cost-effective and greener alternative…
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Rocket Lab Opens Archimedes Engine Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center
Rocket Lab USA, a launch and space systems company, has kicked off operations for testing the Archimedes engine with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The Archimedes Test Complex will be home to engine testing for the 165,000 lbf engines to be used on Rocket Lab’s reusable Neutron rocket. The Archimedes…