Rocket teams were standing by to fly In 2008, there were six teams in the league: Rocket Star Racing, Team Extreme Rocket Racing, Beyond Gravity Rocket Racing, Bridenstine Rocket Racing, Santa Fe Racing, and Thunderhawk Rocket Racing.
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So, Musk's rocket would indeed earn the nickname "BFR" (Big Falcon Rocket or Big Fucking Rocket).
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Relativity's Terran rocket is aimed at the middle of the launch market – in a weight class between SpaceX's large Falcon 2000 rocket and Rocket Lab's small Electron rocket.
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Image: Rocket LabThis past Sunday, rocket startup Rocket Lab launched a three-foot-wide mirror ball into orbit.
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Rocket LeaguePsyonix, the developer of Rocket League, canceled the Rocket League Championship Series world championship scheduled for April 24-26 in Texas.
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That means NASA may consider Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket or Northrop Grumman's OmegA rocket, according to French.
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Those aren't humans inside the rocket-powered cars of Rocket League.
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It's not rocket science, but it's also not not rocket science.
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Rocket Lab has an 18-month backlog of rocket launches scheduled.
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Rocket Lab's Electron rocket is priced at about $5.7 million a launch.
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But first, Rocket Lab has to show that its rocket actually works.
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The rocket is essentially the combination of 3 Falcon 9 rocket cores.
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Currently, ULA's Delta IV Heavy rocket is the world's most powerful rocket.
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Rocket launches were once the crowd-pleasing events — now it's rocket landings.
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Orbital also supplies solid rocket motors and other rocket parts for ULA.
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Rocket Lab is potentially the most transformative commercial rocket company since SpaceX.
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XCOR Aerospace managed to develop a rocket-plane called the EZ-Rocket, albeit mostly to demonstrate its reusable rocket technology and to break some records.
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And only one, Rocket Lab, has ever actually sent a rocket to orbit.
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SpaceX's future massive rocket, the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), has a new name.
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"It's like a rocket, a creative rocket hurling out of control," he said.
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Rocket Lab is planning a test for its Electron rocket on December 8.
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The new rocket factory would build SpaceX's massive, next-generation rocket called Starship.
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Terran 23's fairing will now be 22021 meters in diameter – that's a little over half the size of the fairing on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and about three times the size of small rocket builder Rocket Lab's Electron rocket fairing.
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The Atlas V rocket uses RD-180 rocket engines, which are built in Russia.
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US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab is rescheduling its first commercial rocket launch once again.
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The other technology is the Soviet N1 rocket, which is just a beautiful rocket.
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Rocket Lab: Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab is a commercial launch company like Arianespace.
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SpaceX's new rocket factory will be for its massive, next-generation rocket called Starship.
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SpaceX is developing a separate rocket for that purpose called the Big Fucking Rocket.
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Click here to view original GIFImage: Rocket Lab, GIF via GizmodoWhile rocket launches aren't typically thought of as "cute," watching the maiden voyage of Rocket Lab's Electron rocket is the closest we'll get to seeing the Brave Little Toaster go to space.
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On board Rocket Lab's Electron rocket (its seventh to launch so far) were multiple satellites flow for various clients in a rideshare arrangement brokered by Rocket Lab client Spaceflight.
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And the more uses a rocket has, the more potential customers the rocket has, too.
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Bezos's rocket company just released a video showing how the rocket will launch and land.
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US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab is nearly ready to launch its experimental Electron rocket again.
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OneSpace launched its first rocket back in May — the first privately developed rocket in China.
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Known as "Starhopper," the prototype rocket is the early version of the company's Starship rocket.
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How does she interact with Rocket and Groot, because Rocket is a very angry character?
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The rocket was riding me for a bit, but now I am riding the rocket.
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"This rocket is really designed to be the most reliable rocket ever built," Musk said.
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And that's just for the rocket-launch business that's confined to the Falcon 9 rocket.
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" — JAMES CORDEN "The name of the rocket is the B.F.R., or the Big Falcon Rocket.
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Pictures clearly show the Falcon 9 rocket separating from the spacecraft behind the rocket trail.
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In the future, it plans to be rocket agnostic and use a variety of rocket providers.
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The three-core rocket boasts 2000 engines, more than any other working rocket has used before.
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As a rocket ascends, it produces a flume of exhaust as the rocket fuel is burned.
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North Korea could test a rocket engine alone or as part of rocket launch, Bermudez said.
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You are just injecting more rocket fuel into a rocket that is already able to fly.
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"This is not really rocket science, but it's turned into a rocket science experiment," Sohn said.
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Rocket Lab's Electron rocket will go reusable, with the company aiming for mid-air helicopter recovery
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It added that the rocket had been intercepted by the Iron Dome, Israel's rocket defence system.
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SpaceX has completed 17 rocket flights in 2018 so far, mostly with the Falcon 9 rocket.
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Rocket sirens were heard Monday night along the Israel-Gaza border, indicating further incoming rocket fire.
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Rocket Lab, which has contracted with NASA and private companies to provide low-cost rocket launches out of New Zealand this year, has designed the world's first 3D printed rocket engine.
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Antares rocket launches after an explosive first attempt Antares rocket launches after an explosive first attempt Orbital ATK's Antares rocket successfully launched Monday evening from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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Artist rendition of Blue Origin orbital rocket facility / Image courtesy of Blue Origin Artist rendition of Blue Origin orbital rocket facility / Image courtesy of Blue Origin Bezos stated that the entire rocket would be manufactured in this facility with the exception of the rocket engines themselves.
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A newcomer to the launch industry, Rocket Lab USA has yet to fly their experimental Electron rocket – the same rocket that is contracted to take Moon Express' MX-1E to the moon.
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From its desolate West Texas launchpad, Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin launched another reusable rocket into space, and then successfully landed both the rocket booster and the large-windowed crew capsule.
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Additionally, NASA recently gave SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket a vote of confidence, certifying the rocket on Nov.
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The same was true in 25, when Rocket Lab tested its first suborbital rocket, the Atea-217.
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The rocket, Momo-2, would have been the first privately built Japanese rocket to reach outer space.
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A privately developed rocket burst into flames after the rocket failed to liftoff on Hokkaido, Japan, Saturday,
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The company will be using its robotic MX-IE lunar lander on Rocket Lab USA's Electron rocket.
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A North Korean long-range rocket is launched at the Sohae rocket launch site in Februrary 2016.
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Today's attempt at a barge landing failed when one of the rocket legs collapsed, toppling the rocket.
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Parsons was a literal rocket scientist who invented the first castable solid-state rocket fuel in 1942.
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Blue Origin's engine will power the New Glenn rocket, as well as United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket.
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The Soyuz rocket, however, is the only rocket that can take people to the ISS right now.
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The rocket recovery last year also confirmed Chinese firms have supplied parts to North Korea's rocket programs.
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Trump had started calling Kim "Little Rocket Man" or simply "Rocket Man" last year as an insult.
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If the rocket heads off course, then the onboard computer "can automatically destruct the rocket," he said.
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For one thing, as you shoot stuff out of a rocket, the mass of the rocket decreases.
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The upgraded Falcon 9 rocket launching this week that will one day launch astronauts into space, called "block 5," has a number of refinements that Musk believes will cement its status as the premier rocket on Earth — until SpaceX's future rocket, the Big Falcon Rocket, comes into play, anyway.
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Rocket Lab successfully launches seventh Electron rocket for 'Make It Rain' mission The private rocket launch startup's latest mission took off yesterday from the company's private Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. 3.
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Getting all of that fuel into space requires a big rocket, and the bigger your rocket gets, the more fuel you need to lift both the rocket and the payload off of Earth.
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The LSA awards granted $500 million to Blue Origin for its New Glenn rocket, $792 million to Northrop Grumman for its OmegA rocket and $967 million to ULA for the Vulcan Centaur rocket.
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The plan is for Rocket Lab USA's Electron rocket to bring MX-1E into orbit around the Earth.
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The May test launch — dubbed "It's a Test" — was the first flight ever of Rocket Lab's Electron rocket.
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Rocket Lab, an American firm, has recently begun offering dedicated small-satellite launches, using a liquid-fuelled rocket.
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BIG FUCKING ROCKET The Big Fucking Rocket, first announced in 2017, is going to be, well, fucking big.
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Here&aposs the First Video Showing SpaceX&aposs Rocket ExplodingSpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket exploded in Cape Canaveral today.
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The accident prompted Orbital to refurbish the Antares rocket That accident prompted Orbital to refurbish the Antares rocket.
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Musk described Starship, the next-generation rocket SpaceX is developing, as the key to fully reusing a rocket.
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The rocket is carrying an orbiter, which will detach from the rocket and carry on to the moon.
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That ranges from heavy hitters to small satellite-catered rocket companies like Vector, Rocket Lab and Virgin Orbit.
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That means that rocket manufacturers have to make an entirely new rocket for each subsequent flight into space.
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That, after all, is the reason a rocket company performs a test flight for a new rocket design.
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Background: The satellite was launched by a Rocket Lab Electron rocket on the company's 10th mission last week.
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His first rocket launch was an accident — the rocket landed on the grounds of a nearby machinery manufacturer.
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Rocket officials will draw a winner within 10 minutes, according to Rocket Mortgage Chief Marketing Officer Casey Hurbis.
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Elon Musk's rocket company was set to run extensive prelaunch testing on its Falcon Heavy rocket this week.
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ULA announced in September that its Vulcan rocket will be powered by Blue's BE-4 liquid rocket engines.
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NASA's X-15 rocket-plane / Image courtesy of NASA NASA's X-15 rocket-plane / Image courtesy of NASA But perhaps the most notable of all the X-planes was the X-15 rocket plane.
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The leading theory is that it's the second stage of a rocket — though they have no idea which rocket.
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Rocket Lab has one test launch under its belt already – it flew an Electron rocket on May 25, 2017.
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Rocket Lab launched its third Electron rocket this year early Sunday morning, in the company's first mission for NASA.
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An Antares rocket malfunctioned upon launch in October 2014, after which its operators chose to deliberately detonate the rocket.
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Changing the engine on a rocket is such a big deal that you're practically making an entire new rocket.
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The newly named Starship rocket, previously known as the BFR, intends to to be rocket to rule them all.
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Rocket Lab hopes to launch their Electron rocket for $4.9 million per flight with, eventually, one launch per week.
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The company has reused a rocket, and has performed 11 successful Falcon 9 rocket booster landings back on Earth.
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Rocket Lab's Electron rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Māhia Peninsula at 4:50 p.m.
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The company has already booked a ride on an experimental rocket called the Electron, manufactured by startup Rocket Lab.
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SpaceX is test launching its Falcon Heavy rocket, the first ever launch of the new heavy-lift orbital rocket.
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Rocket Lab's Electron rocket launched six small satellites -- or smallsats -- into a low-Earth orbit Sunday from New Zealand.
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Second, rocket companies like SpaceX want to know how the cargo they're blasting into space will affect the rocket.
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The Apollo-era Saturn V rocket and NASA's upcoming Space Launch System moon rocket are also included for scale.
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New Zealand-born and lately U.S.-headquartered Rocket Lab was successful in launching its fifth Electron rocket this year.
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Having rocket components that can be easily recovered is key to SpaceX&aposs goal of developing reusable rocket technology.
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This particular rocket now holds the record for the New Shepard rocket with the most trips to space, six.
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"It's not rocket science" No, it's not, but it doesn't mean anything that's not rocket science is hard. 18.
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That's our rocket launch vehicle for satellites and the first 218D printed rocket ever made anywhere in the world.
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ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, riding atop an Atlas V rocket built by the United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket.
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Its first rocket design, the Terran 1, hits a sweet spot in the launch market: It's nowhere near as big as SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, but it's still much larger than what Rocket Lab is offering.
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The rocket was designed to bring humans into space and, if successful, will be able to lift more payload than any other American rocket since the Saturn V, the rocket NASA used for its moon landings.
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Nicknamed "The Rocket City," Huntsville gives visitors a chance to learn about space exploration at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
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New York (CNN Business)Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos, is testing its space tourism rocket again.
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And launch startup Rocket Lab, with $75 million in funding, recently tested a rocket at its facility in New Zealand.
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Once complete, Starship will be an immense rocket as SpaceX designed the rocket to carry as many as 100 people.
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For instance, the Atlas V rocket that is supposed to carry the Starliner into space uses Russian-made rocket engines.
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From there, MX-1E will separate from the rocket and fire its own rocket engines to travel to the Moon.
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Based in California and New Zealand, Rocket Lab has been developing the Electron rocket for the last four years now.
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If this rocket does stick the landing today, it'll mark the 33rd successful landing of a Falcon 9 rocket core.
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Rocket launch startup Rocket Lab is moving from its initial testing phase into proper commercial operations with its next mission.
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It marks the first time SpaceX will launch a used rocket for NASA, further validating the company's reusable rocket technology.
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Will a ride on a used rocket end up costing a customer less than a ride with a new rocket?
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The company will launch to the moon in the second half of 2017 on a rocket provided by Rocket Lab.
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The rocket was carrying a JCSAT-14 communications satellite into space, which was successfully deployed by the Falcon 9 rocket.
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Today's rocket is the same rocket that was allocated to launch Jason-3 before the summer explosion caused a delay.
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Each New Shepard rocket has two main components: a crew capsule — with room for six passengers — and a rocket booster.
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Systems like the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or the Multiple Launch Rocket System do not violate the INF Treaty.
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" (Reuters) Trump yesterday in St. Charles, Mo.: "[T]hese massive tax cuts will be rocket fuel — (Laughter) — Little Rocket Man!
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According to Crunchbase records and Rocket Internet itself, Tripda had raised $11 million from Rocket Internet and other, unnamed investors.
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The rocket carries the capsule 62 miles above the Earth's surface to suborbital space, where the capsule and rocket separate.
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Its rocket New Sheppard has had several successful test flights, and it's currently developing a larger rocket called New Glenn.
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BFR The monster rocket that SpaceX wants to build has been codenamed the BFR, an acronym for Big Fucking Rocket.
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Investigators say they found a seven-foot tall rocket, rocket-making equipment, and at least three containers of black powder.
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Recovering a rocket is one (completely amazing) thing, but showing that you can actually use that rocket again is another.
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A nuclear thermal rocket superheats liquid hydrogen in a nuclear reactor and shoots the resulting plasma out a rocket nozzle.
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With its overarching tone of naiveté, "Mission Mangal" hopes to convince its viewers that rocket science isn't, well, rocket science.
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ULA has already started bending metal for the rocket, which is derived from the company's already operational Atlas V rocket.
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SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket company, designed Crew Dragon to ride into space atop a two-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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As we reported ... the amateur rocket-engineer launched himself in the air with a self-made rocket that crash-landed.
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The rocket-building industry is used to generous government contracts that are about job creation as much as rocket creation.
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Super Three-Stage Rocket Says " Super Three-Stage Rocket !" in large letters on package, but actually has only two stages.
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Additionally, if successful, Rocket Lab would join SpaceX as the only private company to return an orbital-class rocket booster.
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Rocket Lab, the New Zealand-based rocket company that is looking to further amplify the commercial space frenzy, is launching its first fully paid payload atop an Electron rocket tonight — technically tomorrow morning at the launch site.
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Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has his own rocket company, Blue Origin, which this month also announced a new rocket, New Glenn, that approaches the Saturn 5 in stature, but is dwarfed by SpaceX's new rocket.
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A Japanese startup commercial rocket launch attempted to launch a 10-meter tall 'Momo' rocket to orbit on Sunday, but while the rocket achieved liftoff, it only made it about one-fifth of its total target altitude.
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ULA was granted $967 million under the program for developing its heavy-lift Vulcan rocket, Blue Origin won $500 million for its New Glenn rocket, and Northrop Grumman Corp was awarded $791.6 million for its OmegA rocket development.
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When Blue Origin first successfully landed their suborbital rocket in November, some were quick to compare Blue Origin's success to SpaceX's rocket landing failures at the time (although they successfully landed their Falcon 9 rocket later in December).
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From 1933-1945, the film was banned in Germany and its rocket models were destroyed because the German government though that the rocket in the film bore too many similarities to their top secret V-2 rocket program.
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ULA was granted $967 million under the program for developing its heavy-lift Vulcan rocket, Blue Origin won $500 million for its New Glenn rocket, and Northrop Grumman Corp was awarded $791.6 million for its OmegA rocket development.
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A whopping 20173 kids were named Rocket last year — if they couldn't be named Groot, then Rocket will have to do.
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Apparently, a Falcon 9 rocket…Read more ReadAt present, the rocket is slated to arrive at the ISS on December 16.
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Details about the new rocket are still pretty light, but the large future rocket is nicknamed the "very big brother" internally.
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In January, Musk's SpaceX rocket corporation plans to launch its first Falcon Heavy rocket, a long-awaited jumbo ride into orbit.
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The company even relaunched a landed rocket for the first time ever in March, paving the way to real rocket reusability.
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"The general sentiment will change from... feeling like, 'A flown rocket is scary,' to 'An unflown rocket is scary,'" Musk said.
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Congress has set a deadline of 24 for phasing out Russian-built rocket engine, which currently power ULA's Atlas V rocket.
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The essence of the rocket is right there in its name: it's the heavy-lift version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
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Legendary programmer John Carmack's rocket company attempted to use a ballute in 2012 to return a rocket body and nose cone.
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US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab has scheduled new dates for its first commercial rocket launch — a mission dubbed It's Business Time.
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The Falcon rocket also uses nine small rocket engines to generate thrust, which reduces the launch vehicle's overall reliability and efficiency.
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On Tuesday, engineers fired up a rocket motor that will be part of the most powerful rocket ever launched to space.
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The rocket would also be modeled after SpaceX's existing Falcon 9 rocket boosters, but made of a more advanced carbon fiber.
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Returning the rocket to Earth in a controlled fashion necessarily means that the rocket then boost back against that initial acceleration.
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An upper stage is the smaller top section of a rocket that separates from the bottom "booster" stage of the rocket.
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The company has purchased three flights on the experimental Electron rocket, a small launcher being built by spaceflight startup Rocket Lab.
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The site on the North's west coast is the upgraded rocket station where it launched a long-range rocket on Feb.
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US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab is still testing out its experimental rocket, the Electron, designed to send small satellites into orbit.
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Rocket Lab has successfully launched its eighth mission, an Electron rocket rideshare flight carrying four satellites to orbit for various clients.
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Because of his interest in rocket mechanics, Musk got intimately involved with the planning and design of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.
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SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, is building and launching Mars rocket prototypes from the southeastern tip of Texas.
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On October 18, 1963, Félicette was strapped into a Véronique AG1 rocket, a direct descendant of the Nazi's V-2 rocket.
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Small satellite launcher Rocket Lab is following in the footsteps of rocket behemoth SpaceX with plans to make its rockets reusable.
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SpaceX, the rocket company started by Elon Musk, is planning to finally launch this summer its long-delayed Falcon Heavy rocket.
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The company's Falcon Heavy rocket became the world's most powerful commercial rocket after SpaceX successfully completed its first launch on Tuesday.
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In addition, the IDF identified an attempted rocket launch in northern Gaza and struck the launcher before the rocket was fired.
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Specifically, Shotwell recalls the initial series of rocket launches that SpaceX attempted with its first rocket, the single-engine Falcon 1.
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But Rocket Lab is looking to accelerate production, aiming to produce a rocket every other week by the end of 2020.
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We successfully launched the Falcon Heavy rocket, which is the most powerful rocket in the world by a factor of two.
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While the launch got the rocket up in the air and on its way, the rocket itself didn't make it all the way to orbit – Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck explained in a press release that things mostly went smoothly to that point, including the first stage burn, as well as fairing separation and second stage rocket ignition.
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SpaceX's Falcon rocket series uses a crush core inside the landing legs to absorb extra energy when the rocket touches down—and the geostationary orbit this rocket was returning from left it with plenty of extra energy to burn.
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"He instructed the institute to produce more solid-fuel rocket engines and rocket warhead tips by further expanding engine production process and the production capacity of rocket warhead tips and engine jets," the news agency said of the visit.
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"He instructed the institute to produce more solid-fuel rocket engines and rocket warhead tips by further expanding engine production process and the production capacity of rocket warhead tips and engine jets by carbon/carbon compound material," KCNA said.
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Once aloft, the three main segments of the rocket could start to produce unanticipated vibrational resonances, causing the rocket to break apart.
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Peter van Dresser, trained as a rocket engineer, became a pioneer in solar design after he left the American Rocket Society (ARS).
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FH is twice the thrust of the next largest rocket currently flying and ~2/3 thrust of the Saturn V moon rocket.
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" Psyonix also issued an equally vague statement through its Rocket League Twitter account reading, "Rocket League is and remains available on Steam.
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Aerospace startup Rocket Lab says it knows why the first test launch of its small rocket failed to reach orbit in May.
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In 2015, the studio released Rocket League, an evolution to its 2008 game Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, to universal acclaim.
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Go deeper: The new space race Houston, we have a rocket bubble SpaceX reuses Falcon 9 rocket booster to launch 64 satellites
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If tomorrow's recovery is successful, it will become the fourth recovered rocket for SpaceX and third recovered rocket on a drone ship.
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However, SpaceX announced before the flight that it wouldn't try to recover this rocket, even though this particular rocket has landed before.
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While other teams have signed launch contracts with private rocket companies, TeamIndus will be flying with a government owned and operated rocket.
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North Korea's state news agency carried a still picture of a white rocket, which closely resembled a previously launched rocket, lifting off.
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The rocket itself is made of a carbon-fibre composite that is much lighter than the metal usually employed for rocket bodies.
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But, check out this alternate view of the rocket as it comes into port yesterday:Yep, there's a definite tilt to the rocket.
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"This is a significant milestone for Rocket Lab and the space industry globally," Peter Beck, Rocket Lab's CEO, said in a statement.
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On Sunday, California-based Rocket Lab launched its second Electron two-stage rocket from a launch pad in New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula.
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Yet, the rocket automatically sensed a catastrophic failure and rapidly aborted the launch, sending the crew capsule away from the failing rocket.
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About 45 seconds later, the capsule separated from the rocket while a solid-rocket motor at the base of the capsule ignited.
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The secret to getting their spaceplane aloft is the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine, or SABRE, a combination jet engine and rocket.
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The rocket has three cores, or first-stage boosters, that work in unison to get the rocket into a low Earth orbit.
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The company has purchased a ride for its lander on the Electron rocket, a vehicle currently being built by startup Rocket Lab.
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However, Elon Musk's rocket company also set off a fireball that briefly engulfed the rocket ship that the engine was attached to.
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Many, including Elon Musk himself, were quick to point out that SpaceX's rocket recovery was slightly different than Jeff Bezos' rocket recovery.
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Nearly twice as powerful as that inaugural Falcon 29 rocket, Musk called Block 123 "the last version" of the orbital class rocket.
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Beal told investigators he is a model rocket hobbyist, but hadn't touched the rocket-making equipment on his property in 14 years.
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The reuse of the rocket was historic in itself, but the kicker was the successful recovery of the rocket, as documented below.
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I wanted to go to work on that rocket and have my fingerprints on that rocket that takes men to the Moon.
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Obviously, there's the specter of Donald Trump and his friend Rocket Man 288 miles from, 230 miles from ... Oh, forgot Rocket Man.
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Beck also says any future Rocket Lab customers should not be concerned about their payloads as changes are made to the rocket.
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As a result, the administration chose the untried Vanguard rocket, designed for research launches, rather than a tested Jupiter-C military rocket.
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As well as interesting perspectives of the rocket flying, you also get a "well done" message once the rocket successfully takes off.
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It would have been the most powerful rocket ever created, easily eclipsing NASA's Saturn V rocket that took humans to the Moon.
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Big-budget studios have games coming, too: Sega will have Sonic Racing and a new ChuChu Rocket puzzler called ChuChu Rocket Universe.
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Rocket Lab's one and only rocket is the Electron, a 55-foot-tall vehicle designed to send relatively small payloads into space.
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That rocket, believed by U.S. officials to be an intercontinental ballistic missile, flew farther than any other North Korean rocket to date.
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If you just want the coin and not the 56-foot, 27,000+ lb rocket, however, Rocket Lab's latest product is for you.
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Those include the SpaceX rocket explosion in 85033, the rocket satellite explosion in 2016, and its aborted space station docking in 2017.
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Rocket Lab, instead, is testing a technology Beck calls an "aero thermal decelerator" — essentially using the atmosphere to slow down the rocket.
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Kemp, a former NASA CTO, and Adam London, an aerospace engineer who previously founded rocket miniaturization startup Ventions, designed their rocket startup from the ground up in a way that's quite different from companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin and Rocket Lab.
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One example of potential trouble involved the rocket used to launch them past Earth's atmosphere, the Saturn V. During Apollo 6, the final uncrewed mission, the rocket experienced several failures, including violent, destructive vibrations that sent pieces of the rocket flying.
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To follow up on those lessons, we asked Hadfield what he thinks about the future rocket ships of three major players in the new space race: NASA's Space Launch System, SpaceX's Big Falcon Rocket, and Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket.
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Related: North Korea Launched Its Rocket and Japan Didn't Shoot It Down On Sunday, North Korea's state news agency carried a still picture of a white rocket that was nearly identical to the Unha-3 rocket it launched in 2012.
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, more powerful than any rocket in use today, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, carrying a payload intended to fly near Mars one day Once the massive rocket sprinted off historic launchpad 39A about 3:45 p.m.
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New York (CNN Business)Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos, successfully completed another test launch of its space tourism rocket.
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Also, I'll be honest—I think these might be rocket packs instead of jet packs (rocket packs don't need external fuel like air).
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A rocket motor then accelerated Unity to Mach 1.87 during a 30-second rocket burn before the ship's two pilots shut it down.
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The Hot Wheels Rocket League Rivals RC Set, which will cost $179.99, will also come with codes for downloadable content in Rocket League.
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SpaceX is the only company which lands orbital-class rocket boosters, as others discard the bottom part of the rocket after a launch.
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Faster thrust is available with rocket fuel, but the entire appeal of an EmDrive is that it doesn't need rocket fuel at all.
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As of now, Relativity has done 124 test fires of its rocket engine, in pursuit of launching the company's first rocket by 2020.
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Soft-landing a rocket on a drone ship floating in the ocean is inherently more difficult than safely recovering a rocket on land.
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Instead of landing its famed Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship again, this time the company landed the rocket on the ground.
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The company's Electron rocket also put into orbit a previously undisclosed satellite made by Rocket Lab's CEO Peter Beck, called the Humanity Star.
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Well, today Jeff Bezos' rocket company, once again, launched that very same New Shepard rocket and successfully landed it for a third time.
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Rocket Lab's Electron rocket has launched five times, lofting 25 satellites to space for government and private customers, making it a serious contender.
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In May 453, Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket to space for the first time, but the vehicle didn't make it to orbit.
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Until now, insurance premiums for commercial satellite and rocket accidents have been falling due to strong competition among insurers and improved rocket reliability.
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Last fall, Musk announced updated plans for the Big Falcon Rocket, a giant booster rocket with a large spaceship that sits on top.
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Go deeper: The new space race Houston, we have a rocket bubble SpaceX reuses Falcon 9 rocket booster to launch record 64 satellites
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Rocket Lab is producing a rocket at a rate of about one in every 20 days, while it launches about once a month.
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While the rocket cores in the Falcon Heavy are designed to return, the upper stage of the rocket is not—not yet anyways.
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Rocket Lab's Electron is a relatively small rocket that stands at just 55 feet tall, about the size of a five-story building.
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The new rocket would dwarf even the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo astronauts to the moon, the largest so far in history.
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Rocket Labs is targeting a big first in commercial spaceflight – the first launch of an orbital rocket from a privately-owned launch facility.
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In fact, the last active rocket with a greater payload capacity was NASA's Saturn V rocket, which flew its last mission in 13.
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The Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo 11 astronauts into space is still the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever flown.
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How can a provider compete against one rocket, only to find that the rocket that will actually be used will not be evaluated?
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In the unedited rocket force video, the missile appeared to have two stages that included a separate rocket booster attached to the bottom.
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It's working on a jumbo rocket called the space launch system, while private company SpaceX is developing a rocket called the Falcon Heavy.
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On Saturday, the New Zealand space company Rocket Labs successfully sent a payload into orbit on its Electron rocket for the first time.
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Among the objects on board the rocket were two commercial satellites and the "Humanity Star," a geodesic disco ball designed by Rocket Labs.
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Rocket Lab has made history today, launching an orbital-class rocket to space from a private launch facility for the first time ever.
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The award for the fewest rocket launches of space capable countries goes to Iran, which launched a single Safir rocket on February 2.
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But for a rocket, the atmosphere thins at higher altitudes, so the force peaks and then diminishes as the rocket enters outer space.
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Relativity isn't the only rocket company using 3D printing—SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, and others also use it to print select parts.
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To make the rocket launch more entertaining, Musk put his own cherry red Tesla Roadster in the rocket to be released into space.
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Rocket fire comes after protests and earlier clashes Friday's rocket fire began in the evening, triggering red-alert sirens across the Gaza periphery.
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The development will take place in Huntsville, Alabama, which is known as "Rocket City" as it was the birthplace of America's rocket program.
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While Trump did not reference a SpaceX rocket by name, the company lists the price of its Falcon 9 rocket as $62 million.
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Before the rocket finally launched more than two years later, Musk suggested to several news outlets, including CNN, that the rocket could explode.
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"Electron is well-positioned to be the first orbital rocket launched from U.K. soil," Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck said in a statement.
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Illustration of NASA's SLS rocket with two solid rocket boosters and a core stage with four RS-25 engines / Image courtesy of NASA Illustration of NASA's SLS rocket with two solid rocket boosters and a core stage with four RS-25 engines / Image courtesy of NASA Today marked the second time that NASA conducted a ground test on the SLS booster.
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That will include an in-flight test of its emergency abort system, which will see the Crew Dragon launch atop a rocket then break off from the rocket and conduct an emergency landing to simulate a situation in which a rocket misfires.
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If we think as dopamine as rocket fuel, we can send it out the back thrusters to push the rocket forward, we can send it outside thrusters to steer the rocket, and we can send it out in retrorockets to slow things down.
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There's a look at how the rocket is rolled out and lifted for fueling and launch, and some insight into how Rocket Lab goes about partially muting some of the incredible volume of noise that's produced when it fires up its rocket missions.
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Jain believes that the plethora of options for rocket providers means that Moon Express can launch easily — from its existing five rocket contract with Rocket Lab to any other corporation in the mix, be it Virgin Galactic, Amazon's Blue Origin, SpaceX or Boeing.
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An Electron rocket launching during a previous test An Electron rocket launching during a previous test During their tenth mission with their Electron rocket, they took a crucial first step — testing the re-entry systems to bring the booster back to Earth's atmosphere.
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In his telling, astronauts perform some weird rituals before boarding the Soyuz rocket in Kazakhstan, the only rocket currently ferrying people to the ISS.
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SpaceX is performing rocket landings with the goal of eventually reducing the cost of launching to space by reusing rocket bodies for multiple spaceflights.
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It's the second time that Blue Origin has reused this particular New Shepard rocket and the third time the rocket has gone to space.
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After an investigation, Rocket Lab determined that, four minutes post-blastoff, ground equipment (provided by a third party) temporarily stopped talking to the rocket.
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Four RS-25 rocket engines will be joined with a pair of solid rocket boosters to create the configuration for the first SLS flights.
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By recovering each rocket after launch instead of discarding it, Musk hopes to cut the cost of a rocket launch by millions of dollars.
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Another rocket would then launch what is known as a space tug, which is essentially another rocket with its own fuel and engine attached.
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Although in December of last year, Elon Musk's rocket company successfully landed their first rocket, but that recovery took place back on stable ground.
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When asked about the mission, Musk said the trip depends on the development of SpaceX's next monster rocket, the Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR.
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Inside, his engineers are building a colossal interplanetary spacecraft called the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR or, as Musk has said, Big F---ing Rocket).
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The BFR, or the Big Falcon Rocket, is the giant rocket that SpaceX is currently developing to send humans to the Moon and Mars.
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The rocket, which consists of three rocket cores strapped together, sported a special third stage on top of its center booster from Northrop Grumman.
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What a sounding rocket is: A canister-filled rocket — there's 10 canisters to be exact, each about the size of a soft drink can.
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If it's a poster of a rocket launch, the rocket appears on the floor in front and you get a recreation of the launch.
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Using a balloon to float the rocket down could mean that the rocket stage wouldn't need to save fuel required for a powered landing.
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To date, SpaceX has completed two successful rocket recoveries on a drone ship and one rocket recovery on a landing pad on stable ground.
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The Vulcan will be powered with American-made rocket engines Unlike the Atlas V, the Vulcan will be powered with American-made rocket engines.
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Bezos' rocket company is among a crop of billionaire-backed space ventures seeking to disrupt the legacy launch services market with reusable rocket technology.
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South Korea's presidential office said on Saturday that officials initially believed North Korea could have fired 300mm rocket artillery from a multiple rocket launcher.
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"He instructed the institute to produce more solid-fuel rocket engines and rocket warhead tips by further expanding engine production process," the statement said.
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This was the second rocket that SpaceX successfully landed on the autonomous ship, and the third rocket that the company recovered at the time.
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The rocket that Bezos is talking about is the same reusable New Shepard rocket that Blue Origin has flown — and landed — three separate times.
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We also learned that SpaceX plans to make this rocket almost instantly reusable, similar to the plan for SpaceX's current rocket, the Falcon 9.
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Satellite images from Iran's latest rocket launch suggest that the rocket blew up on the launchpad, marking the country's third failed launch this year.
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Last November, from a sheep farm in New Zealand, California-based Rocket Lab launched six payloads via their "It's Business Time" small Electron rocket.
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Rocket Internet has announced the closing of its $1 billion fund Rocket Internet Capital Partners [RICP] for investing in early stage and growth startups.
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"No rocket could survive this, nor could the electronics inside the rocket," says Dan Erwin, an aerospace engineer at the University of Southern California.
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The Rocket Voltic's rocket propulsion will be utilized to launch across massive gaps and the Ruiner 2000 will free-fall in vehicular base jumps.
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Garcetti's humorous observation that the rocket was not a UFO came as many people were baffled by the eerie cloud effect the rocket created.
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The first stage, or booster, is the big segment of the Falcon 9 rocket with nine engines that get the rocket off the ground.
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One rocket would launch the Orion and European Service Module together, placing them in orbit, and another rocket would then launch an upper stage, which is a rocket with an engine capable of providing enough power to boost the capsule and module to the Moon.
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And in February 2016, Just Eat and Rocket Internet further drove consolidation as Just Eat bought several Rocket food startups in Spain, Italy, Brazil and Mexico, allowing Rocket to focus efforts on further scaling its key markets across Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
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Because of the size of the rocket and the lift limitations of the balloons, SpaceRyde ends up carrying much smaller payloads than say, SpaceX or Rocket Lab, but on the upside, clients don't have to share rides like they do with the big rocket providers.
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Trump repeatedly called Kim both "rocket man" and "little rocket man" on Twitter and at his "campaign-style" neo-fascist rallies over the past year.
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Rocket Lab expanded its lead on the budding industry of small rocket companies, announcing a $140 million investment round led by Australia's sovereign wealth fund.
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The Deathclaw's home is the Red Rocket truck stop (the one near Sanctuary; not to be confused with the Red Rocket in the Glowing Sea).
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NASA has successfully tested their first RS-25 rocket engine for the agency's next heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), for 43 seconds.
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On Sunday afternoon, New Zealand and U.S. spaceflight startup Rocket Lab successfully sent a second Electron rocket to space — and this time it reached orbit.
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Rocket launches are always fun to watch, but witnessing SpaceX (or Blue Origin, for that matter) land a rocket is always an awe-inspiring event.
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For the uninitiated, Rocket League is basically soccer except the players have been replaced by rocket-powered cars and the playing field is completely enclosed.
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Musk proposed using SpaceX's forthcoming mega-rocket (codenamed Big Fucking Rocket or BFR for short) to lift a massive spaceship into orbit around the Earth.
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This weekend, US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab successfully launched its second Electron rocket for a crucial flight test — and reached orbit for the first time.
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It involves restraining a rocket on a launchpad while igniting its engines to simulate the initial stage of launch — but without the rocket taking off.
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After several failures testing a multistage, long-range rocket, it put its first satellite into space with a long-range rocket launched in December 2012.
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Sometime in the next two weeks, US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab will attempt something it's never tried before: a commercial launch of its Electron rocket.
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Rocket Lab has also been practicing cutting down the time it takes to load up a rocket — after all, you have to have paying customers.
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The Humanity Star rode into space on January 21st on the second test flight of Rocket Lab's Electron rocket, along with three other small satellites.
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That's when the main core of the rocket will be fired on the ground, to see if all the components of the rocket work together.
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Last year, Musk's Space Exploration Technologies' Falcon rocket was certified to fly military payloads, leaving ULA free to end its pricey Delta 4 rocket line.
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Elon Musk's rocket company completed its first EELV mission in December, when a Falcon 9 rocket launched a new GPS satellite for the Air Force.
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Reports suggest that the first stage of the rocket launched over the weekend exploded before falling into the ocean, after separating from the rocket system.
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Stratolaunch once hoped to build its own rocket ship and rocket engines, but it discontinued that project and laid off some workers earlier this year.
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This was the fourth orbital launch for Rocket Lab, which is the leader in a new market of small rocket services provided by private companies.
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He said Rocket Lab is signing customers to launch on the Electron rocket that previously had been working with companies that have yet to fly.
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SpaceX has been forced to delay December rocket launches until January as an investigation continues into why one rocket burst into flames on Sept. 1.
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Currently only the Atlas V rocket could carry a B330 into space, but he believes more rocket services should come into the market by 2018.
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The rocket will have enough thrust to get a heavy payload like the Red Dragon to Mars, but the massive rocket has yet to fly.
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On Monday afternoon SpaceX is expected to launch a rocket containing 64 small satellites, the most satellites ever lifted to orbit by an American rocket.
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This morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on its launch pad, completely destroying the rocket and its payload two days before the scheduled launch.
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The capsule is carried over 100 kilometers above Earth, or more than 62 miles, to space on a rocket and then detaches from the rocket.
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Paying for a dedicated launch vehicle, like Rocket Lab's Electron, can be more expensive for smallsat operators than hitching a ride on a larger rocket.
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Regardless of what's riding on top though, a rocket launch is a rocket launch, and VR is the best possible way to experience it.[YouTube]
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SpaceX's full video of the launch, below, showed several live views of the stubby steel rocket ship and its lone Raptor rocket engine taking off.
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Among the new initiatives announced by the Pentagon, U.S. troops in Iraq will employ the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, a multiple-launch rocket system.
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During the Gaza war in 2014, Israel's Iron Dome rocket interceptor system largely protected the country's heartland from thousands of rocket barrages fired by militants.
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Most states and student rocket competitions don't allow rocket flights above 50,000 feet or rockets flown on student designed motors, a real damper on innovation.
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Arrayed before Trump on the table in the meeting room were models of commercial rocket ships, including one from Elon Musk's private rocket company SpaceX.
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It's not much of an exaggeration to say that any rocket that uses solid propellants and works means that the rocket motor was built flawlessly.
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SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday morning — and cause the rocket to fail 84 seconds into flight and explode shortly thereafter.
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It is building a scaled-down lander to fit into a small, $5 million rocket called Electron, developed by a start-up company, Rocket Lab.
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SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, has been working hard since its creation in 2002 to rocket its first human passengers into space.
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The rocket also landed on the company's drone ship shortly after launch, marking the fourth time this particular rocket has gone to space and back.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX completed its first successful rocket launch on Tuesday for the Falcon Heavy, making it the most powerful commercial rocket in the world.
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Additionally, two of the three rocket boosters had returned to Earth in a spectacular dual landing: Two Falcon Heavy SpaceX rocket boosters landing in Florida.
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Rocket Lab launch switcheroo shows the flexibility of the new orbital economy Stealth, perhaps better described as smart positioning, is where you'll find Rocket Lab.
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The world's most powerful rocket SpaceX founder Elon Musk successfully launched his biggest and most powerful rocket yet from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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At $5 million per Electron vehicle, Rocket Lab is now much closer to having the low cost rocket it wants to launch at high volume.
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Rocket Lab is the leading private company that builds small rockets — its Electron is about a fifth the size of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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The ITS name was ditched in favor of BFR, which stands for "Big F---ing Rocket" or "Big Falcon Rocket," depending on who you ask.
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I've described it as, there was a rocket ship launched towards the sun, and we were just building the rocket ship on the way up.
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Kim Jong Sik is a prominent rocket scientist who rose after playing a role in North Korea's first successful launch of a rocket in 2012.
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The rocket booster and spaceship combined would tower over 400 feet high, making it taller than NASA's Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon.
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You've probably seen plenty of impressive rocket launches but you've never seen one quite like this, which shows what a rocket launch looks like from space.
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Astronomers Say Giant Disco Ball in Space Is Bad for ScienceThis past Sunday, rocket startup Rocket Lab launched a three-foot-wide mirror ball into orbit.
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The rocket, which is part of the Falcon 9's block 5, represents the company's assumed final version of its nine-engine workhorse of a rocket.
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The finished 39-story launch system is designed to include a 22-story rocket booster, called Super Heavy, and be fully reusable, unlike any rocket today.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX, for example, is building a jumbo rocket, known as Falcon Heavy, seen as a competitor to NASA's own Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
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Blue Origin is developing its New Shepard rocket for short space tourism trips and a heavy-lift launch rocket called New Glenn for satellite launch contracts.
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SpaceX's autonomous drone ship / Image courtesy of SpaceX SpaceX's autonomous drone ship / Image courtesy of SpaceX Recovering a rocket is the first step toward rocket reusability.
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Later, Rocket Lab found out why: communication equipment on the ground briefly lost contact with the rocket during the launch, causing the flight to end early.
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After failing to launch last month, US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab will try again at the end of January to get its experimental rocket to orbit.
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The company hopes to fly the vehicle out of New Zealand on top of an experimental rocket called the Electron, manufactured by aerospace startup Rocket Lab.
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Rocket Lab's primary vehicle is the Electron, a 55-foot-high rocket that can carry payloads weighing between 330 and 500 pounds to low Earth orbit.
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Rocket Lab originally hoped to do this mission back in April, but the company had to postpone after it noticed some strange behavior with the rocket.
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And though that vehicle became airborne thanks to a rocket, Musk has since floated the idea that one day, it would use rocket launchers to fly.
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Rocket Lab cultivates a persona of quickness: Its engineers 3-D-print the engines, it aims to launch one rocket a month, it's agile, an upstart.
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Rocket Lab put seven spacecraft in orbit on Saturday with its first commercial launch, as the company grew its lead in the burgeoning small rocket industry.
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"Rocket" might be a slight misnomer in this case: They were rocket-powered planes, with a thruster modified to the back burning liquid oxygen and ethanol.
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The rocket, which is the most powerful rocket in the world, is scheduled to make its maiden flight between 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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After three unsuccessful attempts to reach orbit, his team scrounged together enough parts for a fourth rocket, and SpaceX made history with its Falcon 1 rocket.
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These days, SpaceX makes landing a rocket look easy—in a little over a year and half, it has successfully recovered a rocket booster 16 times.
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In total, Rocket Lab estimates there are 117 rocket companies competing in this booming market of small satellites, which now launches hundreds of spacecraft a year.
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Then in December, California-based Moon Express said it would be launching its lander on an experimental Electron rocket, manufactured by fledgling spaceflight company Rocket Lab.
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Rocket Lab unveiled the "Photon satellite platform" on Monday, which the company developed and built as an evolution of the upper stage of its Electron rocket.
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The photos, published by KCNA, accompanied a report that said Kim had instructed the institute to produce more solid-fuel rocket engines and rocket warhead tips.
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At the time, the rocket was propelled by two AJ26 engines — Soviet rocket engines originally built in the 1960s and refurbished by American manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne.
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Blue Origin's three-stage New Glenn rocket, when it's built, should rival the Saturn V. That rocket is expected to stretch to about 313 feet high.
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Click here to view original GIFTo get the world's most powerful rocket off the ground, it's going to take some serious thrust from its rocket boosters.
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Blue Origin planned a more risky rocket landing for this test flight, only re-lighting the rocket when it was about 3,600 feet from the ground.
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Also on the airbase is Odin battery of the 18th field artillery brigade, which uses High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), a truck mounted rocket system.
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You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand that this Chance project is going to feel like you're riding in a rocket to Mars.
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That's about $10 million to $20 million less than it would cost to launch a similar payload on the Indian PSLV rocket or European Ariane rocket.
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Last month his rocket company, SpaceX, made history by reusing a rocket — an achievement that could dramatically reduce the cost of spaceflight in the coming years.
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Watch SpaceX&aposs spaceship escape and its rocket explodeThis animation shows the Crew Dragon successfully separating and flying away from its doomed Falcon 9 rocket ride.
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Rocket Lab also tested a guided re-entry of the first stage of its rocket in order to prove out the system's reusability in the future.
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SpaceX expected to lose its Falcon 9 rocket during this test, and the vehicle burst into flames shortly after the Crew Dragon separated from the rocket.
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Aerospace giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin, along with small-rocket builder Vector, have expressed interest in launching from an old rocket complex on Brazil's Atlantic coast.
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Rocket Lab is also a pioneer of the 3D printing of rocket parts, such as the nozzles, valves, pumps and main combustion chamber of the motor.
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A successful flight would make the rocket the most powerful in use today – at a fraction of the cost of any other comparable rocket ever built.
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While it wouldn't be the first time a reused rocket has launched and landed, since Blue Origin has done this with their New Shepard rocket on five separate occasions, this would be the first time a refurbished rocket has been sent into orbital space and landed upright.
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Per the award, Blue Origin will receive $500 million for the development of the New Glenn rocket, Northrop Grumman's Orbital ATK is slated for $792 million for its OmegA Rocket, and United Launch Alliance will bring in $967 million for development of the Vulcan Centaur rocket.
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ExPace's Kuaizhou rocket is reportedly based on the launcher for Chinese antisatellite weapons and missile defense interceptors, while Landspace's rocket is based on the government's Long March 11 rocket (for its part, OneSpace was reportedly founded with support from the National Defense Science and Industry Bureau).
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Taiwan is also reportedly looking to increase the range of its artillery rockets up to 190 miles, and was said to be weighing between acquiring the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or developing a longer-ranged rocket for its Thunderbolt 2000 truck-mounted multiple rocket launcher.
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Jeff Bezos' space company will produce up to 21 engines per year, supplying not only its orbital New Glenn rocket that's under development but United Launch Alliance's next-generation rocket, Vulcan Centaur, under development at ULA's rocket factory 22021 miles east of Huntsville in Decatur, Alabama.
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The well-known daredevil and amateur rocket-engineer was doing a rocket launch Saturday in what appears to be near Barstow, CA -- where a reporter says Mike propelled himself into the air with a "self-made steam-powered rocket" and then crash-landed into the ground.
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Rocket Lab At 4 pm local time on May 25, Rocket Lab's Electron stood on the company's private launch pad on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand.
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Blue Origin is also developing its New Shepard rocket for short space tourism trips and a heavy-lift launch rocket called New Glenn for satellite launch contracts.
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These aquatic launch complications make the theory of oceanic rocket launches appear at first quite alien; presumably land-based launches seem equally human to alien rocket scientists.
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Meanwhile, a Rocket Internet spokesperson said that "Rocket Internet decided not to invest in Carspring anymore," and that I should refer any further questions to Carspring directly.
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SPACEX SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES SATELLITE WITH NEW UPGRADED &aposBLOCK 5&apos FALCON 9 ROCKET Saturday&aposs failure was the second after the rocket&aposs first launch last July.
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According to Ghostery, Trump's website is running software from Rocket Fuel and [x+1], a provider of automated ad-buying tools that Rocket Fuel acquired in 2014.
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The Katyusha multiple rocket launcher is an inexpensive type of rocket artillery that can deliver explosives to a target quicker than conventional artillery, but is less accurate.
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While the rocket successfully made it to space three minutes after take off, it "didn't quite reach orbit" as planned, according to Rocket Lab's CEO, Peter Beck.
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First Rocket invested nearly $600 million in Delivery Hero and acquired several assets from it; then Delivery Hero acquired some assets from Rocket among several other shuffles.
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That's why Rocket Lab developed the Electron, a rocket that stands at just over 55 feet tall, capable of putting between 330 and 500 pounds into orbit.
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From the site, Relativity will be able to launch its first designed rocket, the Terran 23, which is the only fully 23D-printed rocket in the world.
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New Zealand company Rocket Lab successfully launched its first small rocket called Electron last month, delivering four satellites into orbit, including the disco ball-shaped Humanity's Star.
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Ten years ago, an Atlas V broke the speed record for fastest rocket launch when the rocket carrying NASA's New Horizons spacecraft hit 47,000 miles per hour.
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As long as Pharah is far enough away or effectively peak around corners, she can launch rocket after rocket at Bastion to take him down pretty quickly.
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Blue Origin is also developing its New Shepard rocket for short space tourism trips and a heavy-lift launch rocket called New Glenn for satellite launch contracts.
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The lab launched a satellite designed to provide internet in Africa on a SpaceX rocket in 2016, but the instrument was destroyed when the rocket blew up.
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The company's Electron rocket is designed to launch spacecraft up to the size of a refrigerator, especially for the premium small satellite part of the rocket market.
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ET Elon Musk and his company SpaceX will launch their new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, on Tuesday afternoon, potentially crowning a new most powerful rocket on Earth.
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" Context: Trump called Kim Jong-un "Rocket Man" in a recent tweet, which he restated during his UN speech, saying "Rocket Man" is "on a suicide mission.
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has finally revealed how its upcoming New Glenn rocket will launch and then reuse a rocket stage by landing it back on Earth.
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk first announced plans for the giant Falcon Heavy rocket in 2011 — a vehicle consisting of three reusable Falcon 9 rocket cores strapped together.
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The development will take place in the northern Alabama city of Huntsville which is dubbed the "Rocket City" as it was the birthplace of America's rocket program.
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Inside, investigators say they found items including a seven-foot tall rocket, rocket-making equipment, and at least three containers of black powder, according to court papers.
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U.S. Strategic Command on Monday said it continued to track two objects put into orbit by North Korea, the rocket payload or satellite, and the rocket body.
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This ended up being a problem with the acceptable limits set on the rocket guidance systems, rather than anything technically wrong with the rocket itself, SpaceX says.
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Virgin Orbit has fallen slightly behind Rocket Lab, which has already completed six orbital launches, though Virgin Orbit says its rocket can haul about twice the weight.
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That it merely … uhh, launched a second rocket from a boat in the middle of the ocean (raising the question of what happened to that second rocket)?
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Relativity's first launch of its Terran 93 rocket, the first fully 3D-printed rocket built using Relativity's proprietary printing technology, is slated for the end of 2020.
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The same capsule will again launch on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, but the flight will simulate a malfunction in the rocket high in the atmosphere.
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Before SpaceX began landing its rocket boosters, companies and governments would drop them in the ocean after a launch, making other rocket boosters a one-time use.
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SpaceX is getting into the rocket ride-share business, giving companies the opportunity to launch bundles of small satellites into orbit on the company's Falcon 20213 rocket.
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Blue Origin was awarded $500 million to produce its New Glenn rocket system, a fully reusable rocket intended to carry both passengers and cargo to Earth's orbit.
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Iran's telecoms minister said the rocket carrying the satellite did not reach "adequate speed" in the launch's third stage for the rocket to be placed into orbit.
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Catit Vesper Rocket, $39.99 — available April 2020On the heels of the Vesper cat tunnel comes this coordinating rocket-shaped tower that includes three levels and a lounger.
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NASA contracted Rocket Lab to launch its CAPSTONE CubeSat to a lunar orbit in 2021, using Rocket Lab's new Proton combined satellite and long-distance transportation stage.
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When it's complete, it'll be the most powerful rocket in the world, rivaling that of the Saturn V rocket that took the first astronauts to the Moon.
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Rocket to Mars: SpaceX tests early prototype of Starship SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket venture, makes its money by launching spacecraft into orbit for government and commercial customers.
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Mr. Kim later attended another ground test of a new long-range rocket engine, exhorting his government to prepare for another rocket launch as soon as possible.
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The first Space Launch System rocket also uses an upper stage that is derived from the Delta 4 rocket that has not been rated for crewed missions.
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A deal worth noting on the LEGO website is the NASA Apollo Saturn V, which is a 1,969-piece replica rocket complete with three removable rocket stages.
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The rocket promises to be the mightiest ever built, able to produce up to 2003% more thrust than the Saturn V rocket that powered the Apollo missions.
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Presumably, SpaceX will launch its Starship on its own future rocket, the Super Heavy, while Blue Origin's lander will fly on the company's future New Glenn rocket.
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By navigating the booster through reentry, Rocket Lab is one step closer to becoming one of the few in the world able to recover a rocket booster.
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Rocket Lab, which counts Lockheed Martin among its investors, reached orbit with its Electron rocket for the first time in January, making the company a strong possibility.
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SpaceX in February transfixed a global audience with the successful test launch of its newest rocket, the Falcon Heavy, the most powerful operational rocket in the world.
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The mission, dubbed SSO-A, also marked the third voyage to space for the same Falcon 9 rocket - another milestone for SpaceX's cost-cutting reusable rocket technology.
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The other business plans are for selling its rocket engines to other companies like United Launch Alliance, which is planning to use them for the Vulcan, a next-generation rocket to replace the Atlas 5 and Delta 4, and for its own larger rocket to lift payloads to orbit.
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It marks the third commercial flight of Rocket Lab's small Electron rocket, and the fifth flight overall for the fledgling company, which just began launching rockets in 2017.
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Basically, it boils down to using SpaceX's forthcoming mega-rocket (codenamed Big Fucking Rocket, or BFR for short) to lift a massive spaceship into orbit around the Earth.
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That launch came just two days after SpaceX launched a rocket that Friday, which was the second time in the company's history it successfully landed a recycled rocket.
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But for the drop test, a dummy rocket was used to simulate the entire commercial flight experience — just without the part where the rocket zooms off into orbit.
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Similar to SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket system, New Shepard's booster – the bottom and largest section of the rocket – launches straight up and then returns straight down to land.
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To be clear, this was a failure with the Soyuz-FG rocket, which is slated for replacement, not with the capsule or newer rocket of the same name.
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In February 2018, Musk said SpaceX no longer had plans to certify that rocket for human spaceflight and it would use its Big Falcon Rocket for tourism instead.
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Rocket companies like SpaceX, Spaceflight Industries, and Rocket Lab stand to profit from ferrying mini-satellites to orbit, which means they have little incentive to question such endeavors.
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Rocket League on the Switch will set you back $20, where as Hot Wheels Rocket League RC Rivals will sell for $180 when it's available later this year.
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The facility only has a horizontal launch license, so your typical Falcon 9 rocket or Atlas V rocket, which takes off vertically, can't fly out of the area.
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Once the rocket reaches the right altitude, the capsule separates from the rocket, and both parts of the vehicle hover high above the Earth for a few minutes.
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Similar to SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket system, New Shepard's booster — the bottom and largest section of the rocket — launches straight up and then returns straight down to land.
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But just two and a half minutes into the flight, the Soyuz rocket that launched the two astronauts was destroyed when a side booster slammed into the rocket.
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Musk's rocket company SpaceX is building a Starship rocket-development site and future Mars spaceport in Boca Chica, a remote beach area at the southern tip of Texas.
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SpaceX makes historic rocket landing In December 2015, SpaceX, a private company led by entrepreneur Elon Musk, successfully launched and landed a full-size reusable rocket, Falcon 9.
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It is aiming to deliver the New Glenn rocket by 2021, while launching humans in a suborbital flight later this year atop its rocket-and-capsule New Shepard.
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This rocket is also the final block 4 version before SpaceX starts using block 5 versions with upgraded engines and improvements to increase the reusability of the rocket.
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A new Vine posted by the Jeff Bezos-backed rocket company Blue Origin reveals a new perspective on what it's like to land a rocket back on Earth.
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However, viewers won't get to see one of SpaceX's rocket landings this time around, as the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellite will be deposited in the ocean.
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Though the European Ariane 5 rocket carrying the satellite lifted off uneventfully, none of the customers with spacecraft on the rocket could reach their probes for some time.
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And while the Pegasus is a fairly small rocket, capable of launching satellites weighing up to 1,000 pounds, the rocket-maker signed a deal with Stratolaunch last year.
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The Rocket Internet Capital Partners fund, as it is called, will focus both on early and later stage investments, and marks a shift of sorts for Rocket Internet.
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In order to achieve this price and launch frequency, Rocket Lab has focused on creating and manufacturing their entire rocket in-house and building their own launch facility.
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When that explosion occurred, SpaceX did a full investigation of the rocket, which eventually resulted in it changing a strut it used to build its Falcon 9 rocket.
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"I've been obsessed over rocket, rocket engines and space flight since I was five years old," Bezos told a packed hall at the Broadmoor Hotel here on Tuesday.
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"Watching a rocket launch (and rocket landing!) might add a little extra fun with the kids on Father's Day — enjoy," Bezos wrote in an announcement of the launch.
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This rocket was first used last year, when it was the first Falcon 9 rocket to successfully land on one of SpaceX's autonomous drone ships at sea. 3.
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The Falcon 9's rocket requires a different kind of configuration to maximize its load capacity, which results in a rocket that's fully expanded via the launch process.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rocket Lab, a rocket propulsion company backed by investors in Silicon Valley, has launched a batch of 13 tiny probes from New Zealand to study space.
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If its launch is successful, Falcon Heavy would become the most powerful rocket in use today — for a fraction of the cost of any comparable rocket ever built.
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Elon Musk, the rocket company's founder, says Starhopper should rocket about 65 feet (20 meters) off the ground, hover, move sideways, and then land back on its launchpad.
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Images from North Korean media showed a tracked vehicle hosting six rocket tubes, suggesting the North has purchased or developed a larger diameter multiple rocket launch system (MRLS).
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The hypersonic strike weapon will be developed in the northern Alabama city of Huntsville, which is dubbed "Rocket City" as it was the birthplace of America's rocket program.
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As a result, there are no landing legs or grid fins (used for directing the rocket back to Earth after first stage separation) even installed on the rocket.
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As pointed out by The Verge, the astronauts currently stationed in the ISS launched there via a Soyuz rocket—the same rocket that malfunctioned in this morning's launch.
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Obviously, the studio is looking to what we're going to do next, beyond Rocket League, but our full focus right now is the studio supporting Rocket League itself.
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Elon Musk's rocket company made NASA history Friday, as SpaceX became the first company to launch a resupply mission to the International Space Station on a reused rocket.
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North Korea makes a couple of short-range missiles that use solid fuel, but small solid rocket motors and massive solid rocket motors are two very different ballgames.
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The solid rocket propellant provides a great deal of the structural integrity of the rocket, which means that it's carrying and distributing a load while it's on fire.
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The company also successfully re-launched and re-landed a previously flown rocket booster, demonstrating the potential cost savings of its $1 billion investment into reusable rocket technologies.
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It was a harbinger of a change to the space launch business, which might become dominated by an assortment of small rocket providers such as Rocket Lab. Nov.
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"If someone can get a rocket to the moon from Palestine, it's a celebration of our creativity, of our ingenuity," the rocket builder Yusuf says in the play.
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But Musk doesn't just have a record of exceeding expectations — he's also the CEO of a rocket company that really could build a rocket capable of reaching Mars.
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Bezos, who owns a rocket company called Blue Origin, has frequently criticized the idea of populating Mars, which is a goal of SpaceX, the rocket company Musk runs.
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Rocket Lab's original client for this one had to drop out due to unfortunate circumstances, and Rocket Lab was able to get client Astro Digital an earlier ride.
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They found, they say, that work on the site now appears to focus on advanced rocket engines and rocket fuel, and is often conducted under cover of night.
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The upper portion of the rocket will be stacked on top of the core, then NASA's Orion crew capsule will also be lofted on top of the rocket.
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The Starship/Super Heavy combo will dethrone the NASA Saturn V rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the moon as the largest and most powerful rocket ever made.
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Oh yeah, CNBC reported that Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin won a major contract to supply rocket engines for a joint Boeing and Lockheed Martin venture called ULA.
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The rocket will have two smaller boosters strapped to its base that will provide added thrust, and the upper portion of the rocket will have a second engine.
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The company's Vector-R rocket, which is nearing its first orbital launch in July, is about one-sixth the size of the often-watched SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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The Arabsat mission is evidence that some satellite operators will opt for a larger rocket anyway: Arabsat 6A was small enough to fit onto a Falcon 9 rocket.
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It is launched via a standard missile rocket -- but after reaching the desired altitude, the booster rocket is jettisoned and the HGV carries the missile payload to target.
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In the meantime, they've established a launch agreement—think of it like a rocket rental contract—with Rocket Lab, a company that launches other companies' satellites into orbit.
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However, the key difference between the two company's current rocket reusability pursuits is Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket is suborbital (reaches the line of space and comes back down to the Earth) while SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is orbital (powerful enough to send payloads into a full orbit around the Earth).
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Aerospace startup Rocket Lab is gearing up for the second flight ever of the company's experimental rocket, the Electron, which is slated to take off again sometime in October.
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New Zealand's Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket in January, deploying four small satellites including a disco ball visible from the Earth's surface that astronomers are pretty angry about.
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He founded the association Copenhagen Suborbitals, with the goal of sending a person into space in a home-built rocket, and wrote a blog under the nickname 'Rocket Madsen'.
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The new fully controllable RC car set is just the next step in the evolution of Rocket League becoming an actual real activity with full-sized, rocket-powered cars.
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To that end, Blue Origin plans to launch the first flight of its New Glenn rocket — a huge rocket designed to bring large payloads to orbit — sometime in 2020.
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The company is currently still in the midst of its testing program, which entails both igniting the rocket on test stands and flying Cosmic Girl with the rocket attached.
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Spectators watch as booster rocket engines approach landing pads after a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 11.
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But SpaceX's rocket is bigger and more powerful (it can launch things into orbit, which Blue Origin's rocket cannot)—and it was conducting a mission for a paying customer.
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This was the first attempt by SpaceX to launch a Falcon 9 rocket for a resupply mission since June 2015, when the company's rocket broke apart minutes after liftoff.
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The company announced in December 2015 that its MX-1E lander would launch on top of a smaller, experimental rocket called the Electron, manufactured by aerospace startup Rocket Lab.
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Ah jeez, the Rick and Morty universe is colliding with Rocket League for the game's second anniversary, introducing new Rick and Morty cosmetics for your rocket-powered car collection.
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Eight of the world's top Rocket League compete at the venerable extreme sports festival in Minneapolis this weekend for the FACEIT X Games Rocket League Invitational, a $75,000 tournament.
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The company is aiming to deliver its New Glenn rocket by 2021, while launching humans in a suborbital flight later this year atop its rocket-and-capsule New Shepard.
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This kind of eerie looking rocket plume can be created when the exhaust from a rocket catches sunlight as it goes above the horizon at nightfall during a launch.
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Both the new rocket and spaceship are currently theoretical, though Musk did say that he hopes to begin construction on the rocket in the next six to nine months.
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In fact, this month Blue Origin continued to prove out their reusable rocket capability with the fourth launch and landing of a single New Shepard rocket and crew capsule.
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Last month, the space company landed a major rocket deal and won a contract to supply the next-generation engines for the massive rocket United Launch Alliance is developing.
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The company will use the site to test-fire two rocket engine models that promise to be game-changers for the commercial rocket industry, and will be built nearby.
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The company has a contract with US space startup Rocket Lab to launch the tiny probe on an experimental rocket called the Electron that's flown out of New Zealand.
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The launch keeps Rocket Lab – valued at more than $1.2 billion and based in New Zealand and California – at the front of the pack in the small rocket race.
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Her father was a NASA rocket scientist and at the age of 4 she attended her first rocket launch at Cape Canaveral, an event that spurred her own career.
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SpaceX launched its rocket from its launch complex at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and the mission parameters didn't include attempting a rocket recovery of the first stage.
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With SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket priced at $150 million per launch at most, NASA could purchase two for less than the list price of one Delta IV Heavy rocket.
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While SpaceX couldn't reveal what the rocket was taking to orbit, it still broadcast the rocket taking off from is LC-93A facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA has pinned its hopes for a future Mars mission on that SLS rocket—but first it needs to prove the rocket is ready to get off the ground.
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That's a fraction of the cost of any existing heavy rocket competitor, such as United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy rocket which costs upward of $400 million per launch.
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It was the first rocket since the 2014 war to land near Beer Sheva, which is far outside the Gaza periphery, indicating a more powerful rocket was likely used.
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Elon MuskJanuary 1, 2016 There's a difference—a pretty big difference—between simply pulling off the vertical landing of the rocket and having that rocket be ready to reuse.
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Private rocket launch startup Rocket Lab has succeeded in launching its 'Make It Rain' mission, which took off yesterday from the company's private Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
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It's been a few summers since Rocket League became a phenomenon, but even if you've moved on, much of the world hasn't; Rocket League continues to be super popular.
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Blue Origin is developing its own rocket engines and rockets, including the massive New Glenn, a rocket that could carry payloads large enough to compete with Musk's Falcon Heavy.
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The X-37B has completed four missions using a Atlas 5 rocket but its most recent mission was launched on September 7, 2017 using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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Starship is built to be fully reusable, meaning the entire rocket will be able to launch, land and launch again — more akin to an airplane than a traditional rocket.
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Soon, crews bound for the ISS will ride on the new Soyuz-2.1a rocket, not the Soyuz-FG rocket that astronauts and cosmonauts have been riding on since 2002.
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The first Orion test launch in 2014 was conducted using a Delta IV Heavy rocket, currently the world's largest launch rocket, built by Centennial, Colorado-based United Launch Alliance.
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Professor Sullivan said that Dr. Ren, a specialist in liquid rocket fuels, most likely worked under Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the founder of China's space program.
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In the video, two astronauts trot down a sleek launchpad walkway in Cape Canaveral, Florida, climb aboard a Crew Dragon, and rocket into orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
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At the top of the rocket there are two actuated (meaning you can control their movement) fins that will move to orient the rocket for re-entry and landing.
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SpaceX is expected to launch its first test flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket (the company's most powerful rocket yet) at some point near the end of the summer.
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Rocket Lab is aiming to provide increasingly high frequency launch capabilities, and the company has a new robot to help it achieve very quick turnaround on rocket production: Rosie.
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Rocket Lab said previously that the results of the "Still Testing" launch, if the rocket "performs nominally," may cause the company to accelerate the Electron program into commercial use.
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The report claimed that, during a visit to a chemical institute, Kim had ordered staff there to boost their production of solid-fuel rocket engines and rocket warhead tips.
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David "Deevo" Morrow is one of the world's best Rocket League players—not only a current Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) champion, but also the MVP of June's finals.
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Elon MuskElon Reeve MuskNASA's Bridenstine gives SpaceX a reality check Hillicon Valley: Treasury sanctions Russians over 2018 election meddling | How Facebook fought back on FTC fine | WeWork calls off IPO | Elon Musk unveils Mars rocket Elon Musk reveals new Mars rocket, expects first missions in months MORE's rocket designed to go to Mars is expected to launch its first mission in months, the billionaire tech entrepreneur said last weekend as SpaceX unveiled the Starship rocket.
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That's because Delivery Hero scooped up FoodPanda from Rocket Internet in December, although Delivery Hero counts Rocket Internet among its investors so the business is still kept in the family.
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It's not clear that a ship could detect and shoot at a launching rocket —especially a large, powerful intercontinental rocket —fast enough to hit it before it climbs beyond reach.
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A new autumn-themed arena is coming to Rocket League later this month, and it includes an interesting detail that confirms the Rocket League universe is populated by egg people.
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The company's repaired and upgraded rocket returned to flight in December, with a mission that also marked the first time a SpaceX rocket flew itself back to the launch site.
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The company's specially modified 747-17486843 carried a 70-foot-long rocket as part of a test flight proving that the carbon-fiber, two-stage rocket works with the plane.
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While Rocket Lab made its first orbital launch in January, this attempt was delayed due to a "motor control" issue with the rocket that has since been fixed, CNBC wrote.
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The launch of the capsule and rocket was the eighth overall test flight of New Shepard, and the second time this rocket and capsule have flown to suborbital space together.
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At the same time, NASA is developing a monster rocket of its own; it's called the Space Launch System, and it's being touted as the most powerful rocket ever created.
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Private spaceflight company Blue Origin has finally assembled its first full-scale BE-4 rocket engine — the main engine the company plans to use to propel its future orbital rocket.
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SpaceX rocket landing profile / Image courtesy of SpaceX SpaceX rocket landing profile / Image courtesy of SpaceX Of course sometimes there are other factors that play into that decision as well.
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Sony had previously limited Rocket League cross-play to just between PS4 and PC, and Rocket League developers Psyonix revealed it was waiting on Sony to stop blocking cross-play.
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People who need that bespoke space positioning have to make a decision: Do they pay for a dedicated rocket like Rocket Lab's, or do they pay for a space tug?
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If the rocket successfully gets off the ground during that window, it'll be the first of three test launches Rocket Lab wants to do before the Electron is deemed operational.
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the rocket experienced an RUD, which stands for Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly and is the term SpaceX uses when a rocket explodes during a recovery attempt.
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Last week, the notoriously tight-lipped rocket company brought a New Shepherd rocket to the edge of space and back for the third time in a beautiful, control descent.2.
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Starship is intended to be a fully reusable rocket system, meaning SpaceX wants the rocket to be able to quickly launch, land and launch again — much akin to an airplane.
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"Launch has become a bottleneck for many satellite companies, and Rocket Lab aims to solve that by providing unprecedented access to space," Peter Beck, cofounder of Rocket Lab, told Gizmodo.
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The music legend, 72, fittingly wore a black suit jacket that read "Rocket Man" on the back in sparkly silver letters and had a red rocket on the front lapel.
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If Rocket Lab's plan succeeds, it would become only the second private company to return an orbital-class rocket booster to land – only SpaceX has previously pulled off the feat.
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Such was the case this morning, when a rocket exploded during a test launch this morning at Cape Canaveral, FL.The plan was for the rocket to launch on September 3.
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The reused Falcon 9 rocket that was recently scheduled to take off, however, was reportedly not involved in the accident:Again, the rocket and its payload were destroyed in the explosions.
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"We had John Glenn leaving us from Space Complex 14 on an Atlas rocket and we're actually launching astronauts again on an Atlas rocket in the near future," Taliancich added.
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The rocket model in Andromeda looks identical to SpaceX's upcoming rocket Falcon Heavy, which will be able to take a payload weighing nearly 30,000 pounds all the way to Mars.
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A 2017 launch resulted in operators losing contact with the rocket after launch, though the rocket was estimated to have achieved a total height of around 12.4 miles (20 kilometers).
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Orbit's specific focus is offering an affordable option for smallsat launches, a market where it'll compete with Rocket Lab, which is using a more traditional ground-based rocket launch model.
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Instead, he said SpaceX is choosing to place its human flight ambitions on the Big Fucking Rocket, a superheavy-class rocket that is twice as powerful as the Falcon Heavy.
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It can activate in mere milliseconds and move the crew component of the spacecraft away from the rocket at a much higher velocity than even the rocket itself can move.
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In September, Musk said his company plans to reach the red planet with SpaceX's BFR — short for Big Falcon Rocket or Big F*cking Rocket — now known as SpaceX's Starship.
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After several weather delays, Rocket Lab successfully launched its Electron rocket from its Mahia peninsula site on New Zealand's North Island Thursday afternoon, as part of a series of tests.
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Recent commercial satellite imagery indicates new activity, possibly preparations for a rocket engine test, at a North Korean launch site where the country fired a long-range rocket on Feb.
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Eventually both the rocket and the capsule will fall back to Earth; the rocket will use its engines to land vertically back ground, while parachutes will lower the capsule safely.
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Notable investors: Rocket Internet, Temasek Holdings Rocket Internet-backed e-commerce store Lazada experienced high growth after success in China's JD and Alibaba, as well as India's Flipkart and Snapdeal.
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SpaceX intends to start testing its huge reusable rocket, the BFR or Big Falcon Rocket, next year, with orbital and then deep space flights to happen a few years later.
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is making great strides forward with its New Shepherd rocket and is expected to fly the New Glenn rocket — also recoverable — within the next few years.
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Prior to today's announcement, the secret rocket had been codenamed the BFR — for Big Fucking Rocket — a reference to a giant gun called the BFG in the video game Doom.
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It costs a whopping $60 million to build a Falcon 9 rocket, and that kingly figure vanishes into nothing when the rocket crashes on impact or sinks into the ocean.
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The company landed its first rocket successfully in 2015, but the company was still perfecting these rocket landings in 2016 and managed to lose a few vehicles during recovery attempts.
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And like I said, next year is when we intend to demonstrate re-flight of the same primary rocket booster within — basically, same day re-flight of the same rocket.
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The rocket, once built would likely be the most powerful ever, producing 28.73 million pounds of thrust, far more than the Saturn V, the most powerful rocket flown to date.
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The Orbital ATK Antares rocket – the same rocket that exploded on its way to the International Space Station two years ago – returned to flight today with a much-anticipated launch.
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In September, when Trump referred to Kim Jong-un as "Rocket Man" in a tweet, Souza responded with an Instagram post of the only "Rocket Man" in President Obama's life.
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Though incoming rocket sirens sounded in Mishmeret, sending residents rushing to bomb shelters shortly before the rocket struck, there was no interception attempt by Israel's Iron Dome air defense system.
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It's the world's most powerful rocket in operation, able to lift more payload than any U.S. rocket since the gargantuan Saturn 5 that NASA used for the Apollo moon landings.
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In SpinLaunch's design, once a rocket is spinning at launch speeds, an exit port in the centrifuge will open for a fraction of a second, sending the rocket shooting out.
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NASA officials now seem prescient in asking Orbital ATK to launch its next cargo mission with an Atlas 5 rocket, built by United Launch Alliance, rather than an Antares rocket.
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Mr. Musk has suggested that rocket launches could eventually be much cheaper because the cost of rocket propellants is less than 1 percent of the full price for a launch.
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Now, according to a new SpaceX job posting, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk plans to build a "SpaceX Village" adjacent to its Starship rocket-development and launch site.
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In July, when India sent up the rocket carrying the lander, millions watched the live broadcasts of the rocket cutting into the sky on top of a funnel of fire.
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Blue Origin, a rocket company started by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is also developing a large rocket called New Glenn, which may begin launching as soon as 2020.
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The technique is quite different from how SpaceX recovers its rockets, though; Rocket Lab envisions catching its Electron rocket in midair with a helicopter after it comes back from space.
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By firing at the wrong time, the rocket achieved a speed different than that which would have put the rocket on a radial target toward the International Space Station (ISS).
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At least once, an Iranian rocket exploded on the launchpad, leaving damage so extensive that satellites passing overhead could make out blast scars, burned wreckage and a blackened rocket transporter.
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According to the report, the two-stage, $210 million Electron rocket launched from Rocket Lab's complex in New Zealand, with its nine main engines powered by kerosene:The two-stage rocket, standing more than 218 feet (22018 meters) tall, fired its nine kerosene-fueled Rutherford main engines at 0350 GMT Sunday (10:50 p.m.
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Redstone has been the center of the Army's missile and rocket programs since the 1950s, when it became the home for the contingent of German rocket scientists who surrendered to American forces at the end of World War II. Civilian rocket research was moved to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in 1960.
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SpaceX's Falcon 93 rocket has to carry its payload into orbit and, depending on the mass of that payload (and the amount of fuel loaded into any given rocket), it might not be feasible for the first stage of the rocket to boost itself all the way back to the launch site.
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The video begins with SpaceX's first attempt to land a Falcon 9 rocket booster in September 2013 through the first successful landing of an orbital-class rocket in history in December of 2015 and up to the first time SpaceX landed a rocket on one of its drone barges in April 2016.
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The Electron rocket Rocket Lab is using for this mission will take off from its Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) in New Zealand, and it'll be the first mission Rocket Lab secured under a new contract the NRO is using that allows it to source launch providers quickly and at short notice.
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Musk claims that this will make the BFR the cheapest rocket SpaceX has ever flown, even cheaper than the Falcon 1 — the very first, small rocket the company flew in 2008.
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At 216:297am ET, SpaceX launched their Falcon 21 rocket from Cape Canaveral and, once again, recovered the first stage of that rocket on a drone ship floating in the ocean.
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We have then subsequently invested in balloon companies, lightweight rocket companies, which will allow the transport ... Gary Miller had one where he sent it out, a tiny rocket into the ... Right.
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Despite the delays, Taiwan didn't opt for another rocket provider like Orbital ATK, which operates the Minotaur rocket for missions to low-Earth orbit at a cost of around $275 million.
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Meanwhile, the company is also making moves to save the rocket fairings (the nose cones) that surround the payloads at the top of the rocket, which easily cost millions of dollars.
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The Delta IV flying today is the Medium+ version of the vehicle, and it will have four tiny rocket boosters at its base to give the rocket extra thrust at liftoff.
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After three years of developing a brand-new rocket, aerospace startup Rocket Lab has finally transported a finished vehicle to the New Zealand launchpad where it will take its first flight.
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The company plans to use the engine to power its future orbital rocket, the New Glenn, as well as another rocket being built by the United Launch Alliance, called the Vulcan.
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However, throttling is a crucial tool needed for reusing a rocket, as it helps a rocket lower itself down slowly using its own engines; this is known as a powered landing.
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket — the most powerful rocket flying today — lofted a communications satellite to orbit from Florida on Thursday evening, before coming in for a soft landing back on Earth.
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Here's what to expect from the company in the coming months and years: FALCON HEAVY The only thing better than launching a rocket you made is launching that same rocket again.
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It's still not quite as many elephants as NASA's Saturn V rocket, though—the 3,100-ton rocket was equivalent to roughly 400 elephants back in its day, according to NASA's estimates.
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While many eyes are on the rocket Kim just launched at Taylor, SpaceX was busy sending a payload up to ISS and and trying out another experimental landing of a rocket.
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Rocket Lab has cautioned that since this is a test flight, the company won't fly unless conditions are more than ideal for launch and only if the rocket is truly ready.
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This was not developer Psyonix's first attempt at making a boost-powered car football game: 33's Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, after seven years of refinement, became Rocket League.
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An apparent rocket-engine test stand can be seen in a corner of the base -- the type on which a rocket is positioned on its side and test-fired in place.
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The rocket builder reached orbit for the first time in January with its final test launch but saw this commercial attempt delayed due to a "motor control" issue with the rocket.
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Left: German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (center) and other members of the German V-113 rocket development team after their surrender to US forces in Austria, on May 3, 1945.
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SpaceX didn't have high expectations this rocket would stick the landing The rocket will stay in the 39A hangar for now, along with the rockets SpaceX landed in April and December.
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The growth in satellites will spur demand for rocket launch services, and a handful of venture-backed rocket companies are developing smaller boosters to deploy the smaller satellites at lower cost.
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And NASA is working a rocket called the Space Launch System that would come close to Musk's planned rocket at 384 feet tall (117 meters), but still fall short of it.
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The daytime landing marks the third time the company has landed a rocket back on land and the eighth time overall that it has recovered a rocket stage after launch. pic.twitter.
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Rocket Lab is among "the best positioned to take advantage of the smaller private satellite launch market," Jonas said, citing the convenience, low cost and sustainable approach of its rocket business.
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Rocket League has much the same premise — soccer, but with rocket-powered cars — so one would be forgiven for presuming that it, too, would flop following its release in July 2015.
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Rocket Lab's chief payload systems engineer Grant Bonin explained how Photon, since it's more closely integrated with Electron, will result in a "greater maximum usable mass for payload" on each rocket.
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Right now, most rockets are destroyed or unrecovered once they've been launched; reusing an already made rocket would bring down the cost of manufacturing an entirely new rocket for each mission.
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"There was a rocket, a rocket explosion that had a lot of smoke coming out of it," said one of the victims, speaking to Reuters TV at a hospital in Turkey.
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Elon Musk's company launched a rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Monday after a series of delays triggered by bad weather and last-minute inspections for the rocket.
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Musk said on stage that he plans to make the rocket capable of landing 20 minutes after launch, and that he wants to reuse each rocket booster up to 1,000 times.
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Both SpaceX and Blue Origin, another rocket start-up from another Internet entrepreneur, Jeffrey P. Bezos of Amazon, have made successful strides in landing rocket stages in the past half year.
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Its launch vehicle, called the Electron, boasts a battery-powered rocket engine printed on 3D parts that enables the firm to offer such low pricing and frequent trips, Rocket Lab said.
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A new Morgan Stanley estimate suggests the 30,000 extra satellites may cost SpaceX $60 billion, but the report doesn't even mention the rocket company's planned low-cost rocket system, called Starship.
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The private rocket company Blue Origin has successfully launched and landed its suborbital rocket in an uncrewed test for the third time, according to tweets from the company's founder Jeff Bezos.
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" Trump publicly adopted the "Rocket Man" monicker for North Korea's leader the month before, first tweeting that he had asked South Korean leader Moon Jae-in "how Rocket Man is doing.
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Musk plans for this new rocket to achieve a host of new milestones for SpaceX, including launching and landing the same rocket twice in 22017 hours – as early as next year.
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Charles Rocket hosted "Weekend Update" for his season on the show, and also starred in the Rocket Report sketches, in which he played a man on the street interviewing New Yorkers.
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By that time, SpaceX likely will be flying its proposed "Big Falcon Rocket" (BFR), which would far exceed the lift capacity and crew complement of even the largest planned SLS rocket.
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Psyonix missed much of an audience at all with their (pretty much the same) game before Rocket League, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars—but how they've taken their second chance.
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If they were unable to recover the rocket, the Oregon State students would lose the valuable onboard data that would tell them if their rocket had made it to 211,220 feet.
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Drax and Rocket Raccoon Drax and Rocket are the third and fourth options of the Guardians franchise, ones who seem like they don't necessarily have the most important roles or storylines.
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Even if the North Koreans were able to master solid propulsion tomorrow, it's practically impossible to swap out a liquid propellant engine for a solid rocket motor because, well, rocket science.
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To do that, he has described a new-generation rocket called B.F.R. (the B stands for big; the R for rocket) that might be ready to launch in the mid-2020s.
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Already, Fleet has launched four of its nanosatellites to orbit on a number of different rockets, including an Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) rocket, a Rocket Lab launch and via SpaceX .
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Rocket Lab has announced its first mission for 2020 — a dedicated rocket launch on behalf of the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), with a launch window that opens on January 31.
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The venture is upgrading its workhorse Atlas 5 rocket, cutting launch prices to less than $100 million per flight, and dropping its costly Delta 4 rocket line, ULA executives have said.
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He says that Everstream feels like a bigger version than Rocket Fiber and an excellent partner to help build out Rocket Fiber's mission of providing super-fast, super-friendly internet service.
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Engineers are able to inspect a reusable rocket after it landed to identify any issues seen during launch, thereby improving future performance — something you just can't do with an expendable rocket.
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Since it started launching rockets in 2017, Rocket Lab has flown 10 flights so far with its Electron rocket, which is a relatively small vehicle standing at just 55 feet tall.
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After separating from the upper stage of the Electron rocket, which carried the spacecraft into orbit, Rocket Lab's onboard computer guided the booster through reentry, successfully flipping it around 180 degrees.
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At the time, SpaceX had recently figured out how to reuse its first-stage rocket boosters, which are the bottom part of the rocket that gives the initial thrust at liftoff.
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" Months later in 2013, Rocket passed with "flying colors.
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It's no rocket to Mars, but, still, pretty cool.
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" — STEPHEN COLBERT "Why are you calling him 'Rocket Man'?
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A rocket mission designed to fail — then to fall
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" : "The stock is a rocket ship and it's terrific.
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IntroYoung Thug - "Rocket Man (Remix)"Ilham - "Last Night" feat.
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