What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...
The company that pioneered small launch has had a big year. Rocket Lab broke its annual launch record with the Electron booster—17 successful missions this year, and counting—and is close to bringing ...
Jeff Bezos-led aerospace giant Blue Origin faced yet another setback with its New Glenn rocket's explosion during its Thursday launch at NASA's launchpad in Florida's Cape Canaveral. At around 9 PM ET ...
Rocket Lab received a $190 million contract to perform test flights with one of its rockets for a Defense Department effort. Under the contract, Rocket Lab will perform 20 hypersonic test flights with ...
NASA has pulled off a high-flying aurora investigation, launching three rockets into the glowing northern lights over Alaska. One mission targeted mysterious dark patches called black auroras, while ...
Frank Malina was a lot of things. The Texas-born aeronautical engineer co-designed the first jet-assisted take-off (Jato) rocket and the US’s first operational high-altitude rocket. He co-founded and ...
Rocket Lab received a $190 million contract to perform test flights with one of its rockets for a Defense Department effort. Under the contract, Rocket Lab will perform 20 hypersonic test flights with ...