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Russia’s First Post-Cold War Rocket Lifts Off from Remote Eastern Launch Site
Angara A5, Russia’s largest operational rocket, took flight from the Vostochny Cosmodrome earlier today.
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This ‘Self-Eating’ Rocket Consumes Its Own Body for Fuel
A new rocket is designed for its own destruction, eating itself as it makes its way through Earth’s atmosphere to power its journey. A group of researchers from the University of Glasgow has built the first unsupported autophage rocket engine, which uses waste heat from combustion to melt its plastic fuselage and use it as…
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Crucial Rocket Parts End Up Crushed in a Landfill, Imperilling Satellite Mission
The final mission of the European Space Agency’s Vega rocket has encountered a bizarre setback. Key propellant tanks required for its last flight were found damaged in a landfill, jeopardizing the scheduled 2024 launch. It’s common for wallets to go missing. Same for car keys and mobile phones. It happens. But for two propellant tanks…
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NASA Tests the First Rocket to Launch From the Surface of Another Planet
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been diligently collecting rocky samples from Mars to stow them away on the planet’s dusty surface while engineers work to develop a rocket that can launch off of another world as a crucial step in the process of retrieving the samples. The team behind the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently tested…