Versions of the Atlas rocket would go on to launch the Project Mercury astronauts into orbit. The reliable Atlas-Centaur rocket, which flew for over 40 years, was derived from the SM-65 Atlas ...

“Man Will Conquer Space Soon,” blared the headline, above a painting of a multi-stage rocket with engines ... now christened Project Mercury. The Mercury spacecraft went on to put the first ...

Amazon's second fleet of internet satellites now has a target launch date. The stack of 27 satellites, part of Amazon's ...

Atlas V 551 rocket carrying the second batch of production satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper has been rescheduled for June 16, 2025, pending range approval.

What time is liftoff? ULA's Atlas V should be visible outside of Florida pending weather. Did your city, state make the ...

We aren't quite there yet, but the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) wants to push one end of the spectrum a bit closer to the instantaneous point with its Rocket Cargo project. Part of the ...

As with other ICBM tests, today's launch was planned months in advance and "is not a response to current world events," the U ...

Final year mechanical engineering student T. Arykummara, who is also the project director, said their 2.8m-long rocket, weighing 28kg, was made from scratch using locally sourced materials.“ ...

It begins with the first-ever launch of the Amazon Project Kuiper production satellites, courtesy of the ULA Atlas V rocket. Online, the mission has been called the "Amazon rocket launch" or "the ...

In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that uses supersonic explosions to create thrust.

I took ideas from my senior design project and from my classes and brought them back ... both for their Vulcan and Atlas rockets. Big stuff," Clendenning says. "I've worked at a manufacturing company ...