All the stories tagged with: rocket
NASA rocket reborn for commercial use
09/13/2011, Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. What if you’re a defunct rocket sitting in some secret hangar of NASA? Well, the national space agency decided that there are still some miles left in their now defunct rocket, and [...]
SpaceX to launch the world’s most powerful rocket in 2013 or 2014
04/05/2011, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has just announced their plans for the Falcon Heavy – the world’s largest and most powerful rocket. The Falcon Heavy will have the ability to carry satellites or interplanetary spacecraft weighing over 53 metric tons or [...]
ZTE to take advantage of T-Mobile’s 42Mbps HSPA+ service
03/23/2011, ZTE has decided to make use of the soon-to-be AT&T baby, T-Mobile’s 42Mbps HSPA+ service by rolling out a couple of wireless devices – with the first being the Rocket 3.0 USB modem which will be released later this spring. [...]
Laser-propelled rockets in the future?
01/24/2011, We’ve already seen laser-powered helicopters from LaserMotive and perhaps the company will go about sending rockets into space using lasers in the near future too. One of the issues about sending a chemical-powered rocket into space is that you need [...]
Scientists Power Rocket With Microwaves
09/09/2010, We recently saw a laser-powered helicopter, and now the smart folks over at the Naka Fusion Institute of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have managed to launch a 126 gram rocket using a Gyrotron, a high-powered ground-based microwave beam emitter. [...]
NASA Second Rocket Booster Test Went Well
08/31/2010, U.S. space agency NASA has concluded its second rocket booster test, and that test had gone well at the ATK facility in Utah. The second rocket booster is part of a give-segment motor, an upgrade from the four-segment booster that [...]
