Tag: Rockets
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Museum of Flight gets intact moon rocket engine to go with beat-up Apollo artifacts
An Apollo-era F-1 rocket engine arrives on a flatbed truck. (Museum of Flight Photo) When historic rocket engine parts from the Apollo moon missions go on display in May in Seattle, museumgoers will be able to compare them with an intact F-1 engine. The 50-year-old, 18.5-foot-tall engine arrived at one of the Museum of Flight’s…
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Blue Origin, ULA and Aerojet win Air Force contracts for U.S.-made rocket engines
Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine goes through staged combustion testing. (Credit: ULA) Blue Origin, the rocket venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is among the beneficiaries in a set of Air Force contracts aimed at developing U.S.-made replacements for the Russian-made engines that currently power many of America’s space missions. One of the contracts announced…
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Reserve a launch for your satellite online? Rocket Lab can make it so
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck aims to have the company’s Electron rocket blasting off from a New Zealand launch site within a year. (Credit: Rocket Lab) The CubeSat revolution has come to this: Now you can make an online reservation for a nanosatellite launch almost as easily as booking a flight from Seattle to Los Angeles. L.A.-based Rocket…