Space Rocket Concept That Breathes Air for Extra Thrust Will Knock the Wind Out of You. Published: 7 Mar 2024, 23:20 UTC • By: Daniel Patrascu. 12 photos. Photo: Hazegrayart.

The California-based startup SpinLaunchis reimagining how satellites are launched into space. Unlike traditional rockets that rely on fuel and combustion, SpinLaunch uses a kinetic launch system that ...

While U.S.-based companies are launching more payloads into orbit than ever before, they’re still limited by the inefficiency ...

British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to them, and carry them to their destination at breakneck speed using ...

Civic, Accord, Super Cub... and now a rocket? Honda has gone where few automakers have gone before and launched a rocket into ...

Welcome to Edition 8.03 of the Rocket Report! We are at an interesting stage in Europe, with its efforts to commercialize ...

But it's impossible to have a rational discussion about the Space Launch System rocket and its payload, ... At a price of $4.1 billion per mission, the SLS and Orion embody this concept.

Wild mission concepts would melt into icy moons, surf on sunlight to the ice giants, ... Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!

Nuclear-powered spacecraft could be the apex vehicle of this century’s space race. Concepts and designs for reactor-equipped rockets have been around for over 50 years but have never left the ...

Watching a massive space-faring vessel make its way beyond Earth's atmosphere into the embrace of outer space, in many cases carrying a crew of human beings — one unbelievable NASA concept space ...

It's this "tyranny" that explains why modern rockets are in the range of 80 to 90 percent fuel, all used to heft a comparatively small payload into space, and why staging — having multiple ...