The United Launch Alliance (ULA) has formally selected the Liquid Hydrogen/Liquid Oxygen (LOx) RL-10C-X engine built by Aerojet Rocketdyne for the upper stage of ULA’s new proposed Vulcan rocket. In doing so it is thought to have beaten the other main...
NASA has announced that it is to send its “Mars Helicopter”, a small autonomous rotorcraft, to Mars with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020. Started in August 2013 as a technology development project at NASA’s...
Orbital ATK’s plans to effectively join the battle for military and government launches using a new solid rocket has come a step forward. Not only has it remaned its “Next Generation Launch Vehicle” with the nicer sounding OmegA (upper case A is...
US aerospace giant Boeing, via its HorizonX investment firm, has invested in the UK hypersonic propulsion development firm Reaction Engines Limited. Boeing HorizonX Ventures participated in this US$37.3 million Series B funding round alongside Rolls-Royce and BAE...
Dumitru Popescu, the CEO of ARCA Space, who was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, last year over alleged fraud charges, having just arrived back into the USA, is continuing to protest his innocence. The US-based Romanian-founded rocket firm which has NASA investment to...
At the “Reuse, Revitalize and Repurpose” forum at the SATELLITE 2018 conference, Orbital ATK along with their dedicated, in-orbit servicing subsidiary SpaceLogistics, introduced the new members of their Mission Extension family. These new entrants consist...
