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Rocket Lab has proven it can win contracts with its small Electron rocket, and now the Neutron is the next step. If it keeps ...

Any launchpad would be for small test rockets initially, and take several years to scale up to the real thing.

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Debris that small, which cannot currently be detected ... Feb. 5, 2025 — There's a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight ...

Right after launching, a bunch of satellites heading to join the megaconstellation looks like a string of moving stars going ...

Unlike conventional chemical rockets, Sunbird relies on nuclear fusion – a process that replicates the energy production at the core of stars – to propel spacecraft.