The development of the Epsilon launch vehicle, Japan's next generation solid rocket launcher, has just moved on to the final stretch for its first launch scheduled in summer of 2013 carrying the planetary telescope satellite SPRINT-A. It should be emphasized that the JAXA appreciates the ...
Each launcher provides environment data in terms of steady-state acceleration, low-frequency vibration, acoustic vibration, and shock. These data are specified at the satellite/launch vehicle interface plane, and the probability that the actual load does not exceed the specified values is 99% or 3...
A dramatic week in space launcher politics has left NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) with a vastly reduced launch manifesto and casts doubt on the prospects of future upgrades to the massive launch vehicle. On Monday the White House’s budget request laid out the administration’s plans for...
We feel like the days when you want to play in the water are far behind us. But if you can still find a warm afternoon here or therethis water rocket launcher buildis a fun undertaking. We figure most of the time spent on the project will be in shopping for the parts. They’re al...
At the beginning of the 1960s, internal rivalry marred the efforts of the Soviet space industry to respond to the US challenge to land a man on the Moon. Korolev's rival, Vladimir Chelomei, proposed an alternative rocket to the N1 launcher. Designated UR-700, this monstrous vehicle would ...
SCRATCH-BUILDING A POP BOTTLE ROCKET LAUNCHER The author highly recommends Water Rockets I-III Teacher Handbook. This outstanding guide book was written by two highly-qualified science teachers from the Lincoln, Nebraska area. The authors, Jake Winemiller, of Lincoln Southeast High School, and ...
With all 10 booster segments now fully stacked on the mobile launcher, there’s just one final piece of the puzzle to round out the power needed to get SLS off the ground and send it to space: core stage. After a 900-mile voyage aboard NASA’s Pegasus barge, the SLS core stage –...
Even so, the oligarchs have provisionally seized close to $1 billion in assets in France—including $400 million owed by Eutelsat to the Russian Satellite Communications Co. for satellite capacity and $300 million owed by Arianespace to Roscosmos for rocket launchers. One billion down, says She...
NASA?s AresI rocket is a two-stage launcher made up of a giant five-segmentsolid rocket booster first stage (similar to the four-segment versions usedon the space shuttle) and a liquid-fueled second stage. Completing the rocketis the Orion crew capsule and a launch abort system tower at ...
Measat 3b satellite transported to Kourou, French Guiana for a dual launch with the SSL-built Optus 10 by an Arianespace Ariane 5 launcher.[Via Satellite – 04/16/2014] SpaceX signs 20-year agreement with NASA for use of Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, the site of numerous...