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2018 - The Electron rocket was the first New Zealand rocket to achieve orbit. The rocket is also unique in using an electric pump-fed engine. The rocket also carried an additional satellite payload called "Humanity Star", a 1-meter-wide (3 ft) carbon fiber sphere made up of 65 panels that reflect the Sun's light. [35]
In July 2012, United Technologies Corporation agreed to sell Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to GenCorp,Inc., which also owns rocket engine producer Aerojet. [1] [2] [3] The sale was completed in June 2013, when the company was merged with Aerojet to form Aerojet Rocketdyne. [4]
ID-1, ID-2, ID-3 and unnamed 2-stage rocket engine for DNLV solid rocket motor and liquid rocket engine: used on ID-1, ID-2 and DNLV rocket Borneo SubOrbitals: Malaysia hybrid rocket: used on yet-to-be-named rocket Apollo Fusion United States ACE, ACE Max Hall-effect thruster: To be used on Spaceflight, Inc.'s Sherpa-LTE space tug [46]
A typical rocket consists of multiple stages that are expensive to build and often discarded after one use. Companies like SpaceX have revolutionized rocket technology and reduced costs with ...
Firefly Aerospace Inc, a resurgent rocket company founded by a former SpaceX engineer, plans to build a factory and launch site at Florida's Cape Canaveral Spaceport in a $52 million deal, people ...
Opportunities to watch a rocket launch from a Florida beach seem to be increasing, too. In 2023, FLORIDA TODAY, a USA TODAY Network-Florida newspaper, reported a record-breaking 72 orbital ...
Testing the XLR-115 hydrogen fueled rocket engine at the Florida Research and Development Center in Apix. Apix, Florida was a former rocket testing facility created as part of Project Suntan during the Space Race, including a fake town in Palm Beach County, Florida, the primary feature of which was an alleged fertilizer plant set among the surrounding swamplands.
Firefly had signed an agreement with Space Florida to launch from the Florida "Space Coast". Firefly performed its first hot-fire engine test of the "Firefly Rocket Engine Research 1" (FRE-R1) on September 10, 2015. [10] [11] The initial demonstration launch of the Firefly Alpha was planned to be as early as 2016. [12]