There are no customer satellites aboard the first Spectrum test flight. The rocket will climb into a polar orbit from Andøya ...

A previous post discussed the creation of the V-2 rocket ... weight being dragged along with the rocket as it traveled farther and farther downrange. If Germany ever hoped to strike the mainland ...

A German rocket which was described as the largest the country has made since the Nazi-era V-2 has exploded just 40 seconds after launching from a Norwegian space port. The unmanned Spectrum ...

Walter Dornberger (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1980-009-33 / CC-BY-SA 3.0) This is the world in which V-2, written by the head of the German rocket development program Walter Dornberger, takes place.

AS ALLIED TROOPS RUMBLED INTO GERMAN TOWNS and the victors jockeyed to divide the spoils, one prize stood out: the people and machinery that had produced the V-2 rocket, one of the war’s most ...

Colin (left) and Sean Welch search for fragments of a German V-2 missile in ... which displays a captured V-1 flying bomb as well as a V-2 rocket. (The National Air and Space Museum in Washington ...

A German V2 rocket from World War II has been found nose down in the mud flats at Harwich Harbour in the east coast of England. Royal Navy divers said it was buried vertically with about 1.5m of ...

The first attempt of an european rocket was the Europa rocket (early ... Both UK and France were very much hardcore in their opinion, that Germany should never ever develop a booster again.

It was the largest German rocket since V-2, the Nazi-era rocket that has often been described as having launched the space age and was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile.