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 ...

After a previous failed launch, members of the UC Irvine Rocket Project solids team harbored doubts as they arrived at the Mojave Desert testing site 13 months ago. Their new competition rocket had ...

Rocket Project at UCLA spent hours across months building a fuel tank. Project Ares, Rocket Project’s senior team, built a prototype tank with liquid oxidizer and fuel to test what pressures it could ...

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 ...

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 ...

Description: Project BLERP aims to design and construct a reusable liquid rocket engine and launch stand that can be re-used and studied by future students at University of Colorado Boulder. The goal ...

The 27 broadband spacecraft lifted off today (June 23) at 6:54 a.m. ET. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Amazon's second big batch ...

Welcome to Edition 7.24 of the Rocket Report! This is the last Rocket Report of the year, and what a year it’s been. So far, there have been 244 rocket launches to successfully reach orbit this year, ...