Tag: Launch Vehicle Engines
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ISRO Facilitates Skyroot Aerospace’s Rocket Motor Test
ISRO/SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota has facilitated the static test of the S2 motor of Kalam-250 Rocket designed and developed by an Indian Space start-up M/s Skyroot Aerospace, Hyderabad at SDSC’s propulsion testbed. The test was enabled by IN-SPACe. Leveraging expertise and infrastructure, SDSC SHAR offered a comprehensive technical assessment and feasibility study, selecting the 6A-High Capacity test…
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Ursa Major’s Hadley Engine Powers Stratolaunch’s Testbed in Historic Hypersonic Test Flight
Ursa Major’s Hadley engine, a purpose-built engine to satisfy America’s commercial and national security space needs, flew for the first time powering Stratolaunch’s Talon-A1 (TA-1) testbed during a test over the Pacific Ocean. The test, which reached high supersonic speeds approaching Mach 5, marks the first step toward flight of a hypersonic vehicle developed by…
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HyImpulse SR75 Rocket Shipped to Australia for Germany’s First Private Newspace Launch
The rocket SR75 from HyImpulse has been fully prepared and packaged in time at the HyImpulse headquarters in Neuenstadt, Germany. Both the rocket and its ground support equipment have started the journey by ship through the Atlantic Ocean, around South Africa, and all the way to Southern Australia. The Koonibba test range will be the…
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ISRO Successfully Completes Human Rating of CE20 Cryogenic Engine for Gaganyaan Program
ISRO has accomplished a major milestone in the human rating of its CE20 cryogenic engine that powers the cryogenic stage of the human-rated LVM3 launch vehicle for Gaganyaan missions, with the completion of the final round of ground qualification tests on February 13, 2024. The final test was the seventh of a series of vacuum…
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Frontier Aerospace Deploys TALOS Engines in Space Exploration Missions
Frontier Aerospace, one of the leaders in next-generation liquid rocket engines used for commercial space, exploration, and missile defense, revealed its attitude control and axial thrusters were used during Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission. Frontier Aerospace provided a complete flight set of Thruster Advancement for Low-Temperature Operations in Space (TALOS) attitude control and axial thrusters for the…
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First Ariane 6 Core Stages Shipped to Europe’s Spaceport
The stages that make up the central core of Europe’s new rocket, Ariane 6, have left mainland Europe and are heading towards Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana. Shipping across the Atlantic, the main stage and upper stage were loaded into the purpose-built hybrid sailing ship Canopée at the harbors of Bremen, Germany, and Le Havre,…
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Phantom and Vaya Space Sign Launch Site Agreement for Commercial Space Launches
Phantom COO Mark Lester and Vaya COO Rob Fabian signed the memorandum of agreement at the Space Mobility Conference, outlining how the two companies will work concurrently at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 13 (LC-13). For the first time, two launch service providers have agreed to simultaneously operate from a single launch complex.…
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Northrop Grumman’s Solid Rocket Boosters Power ULA’s Vulcan Rocket Maiden Launch
Two of Northrop Grumman Corporation’s extended-length, 63-inch-diameter Graphite Epoxy Motors (GEM 63XL) solid rocket boosters helped power the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Rocket and the first certification (Cert-1) mission. The GEM 63XL boosters are the longest monolithic, single-cast solid rocket boosters ever manufactured and flown. The launch represents the first flight of…
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Venus Aerospace and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Collaborate on New Engine Tech
Venus Aerospace, one of the hypersonics leaders developing reusable hypersonic flight platforms, has partnered with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to achieve one of the longest sustained tests of a rotating detonation rocket engine. Venus designs and manufactures hypersonic engines and aircraft for research, defense, and commercial missions. The goal of this partnership was to…
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ULA’s Vulcan Rocket Set to Debut with Upper-Stage Engine Built by Aerojet Rocketdyne
When the next-generation Vulcan rocket developed by United Launch Alliance takes flight for the first time in the coming days, it will usher in a new era for the RL10 upper-stage rocket engine built by Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies company. Versions of the RL10 have been reliably propelling payloads into space for 60 years,…