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National Defense
July 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Costs, Benefits of RD-180 Rocket Engine Replacement Program Debated The U.S. national security space community was left wondering this spring whether a Russian company would continue to supply it with engines needed to launch heavy payloads on its Atlas rockets.   |
Popular Mechanics
April 2003
Paul Eisenstein |
Biggest Engine Ever Built It was the largest, most powerful rocket ever built and, having served as the launch platform for the Apollo manned moon mission, probably qualifies as the most famous rocket as well. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2009 |
Behind the Scenes With the World's Most Ambitious Rocket Makers In late 2001, Tom Mueller was sacrificing his nights and weekends to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine in his garage. |
Wired
December 2001
Evan Ratliff |
Blastnost! The once proud Soviet missile fleet has set its sights on the deep-discount launch business... |
Wired
April 2001
Alex Markels |
The Next Wave Ships from Norway, rockets from Russia, techspertise from Seattle. Together, they slingshot satellites off a floating platform on the equator - and set the stage for a new kind of company, built on international brainpower... |
IndustryWeek
May 18, 2011 |
The Saturn V Rocket and Supply Chain Innovation The creation of the Saturn V Rocket - the greatest machine ever built - required not just technical prowess but radical supply chain innovation. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Meet The New Zealand Company That's 3-D Printing Rocket Engines... And They Work An upstart New Zealand rocket company says it has found a way to drastically cut the cost of satellite launches: 3-D printing rocket components. |
National Defense
February 2012
Eric Beidel |
Booster Sought To Launch and Launch Some More When rocket boosters propel a vehicle into space, it usually is a one-time deal. Parts of a launch system burn up, fall into the ocean or remain in an orbital graveyard never to be used again. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Sandra Upson |
Rockets For The Red Planet Engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back |
Wired
January 2001
Ed Regis |
Zip Drive NASA scientists are building a hot little ride: Vasimr, a rocket that runs on million-degree plasma and could someday fuel a fast-track trip to Mars... |
National Defense
April 2015
Stew Magnuson |
A New Rocket Engine by 2019? Air Force Says No; Aerojet Rocketdyne Says Yes Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed hot-fire testing of a single-element main injector for the AR1 rocket engine that was completely built using additive manufacturing. |
Popular Mechanics
September 11, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
How to Make a (More) Environmentally Friendly Rocket Fuel Every NASA space shuttle launch leaves a huge cloud of exhaust in its wake, and some nasty chemicals lurk in the exhaust. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2005
Anatoly Zak |
Europe to Join Russia in Building Next Space Shuttle Russian space officials confirmed that the European Space Agency will partner with them to build a new reusable orbiter dubbed Kiper. The agreement will give Russia new flexibility as the U.S. and Russia separately plan long-term space efforts. |
National Defense
July 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Launch Contract Dispute Pits SpaceX Against Air Force, ULA A dispute between rocket-builder SpaceX and the Air Force over launch contracts came to the fore when the company's founder, Elon Musk announced a lawsuit directed at the service. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Elon Musk |
Risky Business Why Mars is more important than cosmetics and why a failed launch is also a partial success |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2006
James Oberg |
Stellar Engineer For nearly 40 years, manned spacecraft have relied on Russian engineer Vladimir Syromyatnikov's mechanisms to link up in space safely. |
National Defense
June 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Industry, Space Agencies Seek Ways To Lower Launch Costs In an age of austere federal budgets, the Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office are looking to reduce the spiraling cost of placing their heaviest satellites into space. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
McGarry & Capaccio |
The Air Force Kicks Off a New Space Race Lockheed Martin and Boeing may lose from the Air Force's plan to open the $9.9 billion satellite launch business to competition. |
Popular Mechanics
April 27, 2009
Davin Coburn |
Rocket Record: The Largest, Heaviest Amateur Rocket Ever Launched Steve Eves broke two world records Saturday, when his 36-ft tall, 1,648 lb rocket was the largest and heaviest amateur rocket ever launched and recovered successfully. |
Outside
October 2003
Bryant Urstadt |
Master Blaster It's every boy's dream: launching a do-it-yourself rocket that could not only put an eye out but could drill a hole through King Kong's forehead -- and still make it to outer space. Meet Ky Michaelson, the sultan of thrust. |
BusinessWeek
October 28, 2010
Paul M. Barrett |
NASA: Lost in Space After 30 years, the Shuttle program will end. How do you outsource the astronaut business? |
BusinessWeek
September 24, 2009
Carol Matlack |
The Peril and Promise of Investing in Russia It's still risky, but for global corporations, Russia country is simply too big -- and too rich -- to ignore. |
Wired
October 20, 2008
Preston Lerner |
Pyro Geek Hobbyists Experiment With Homebrew Rockets The Association of Rocket Mavericks is a group of amateur rocketeers that are the top guns of model rocketry and may be the future innovators of the aerospace industry. |
Science News
May 12, 2007 |
Timeline: From the May 8, 1937, issue Places last bolt in frame of 200-inch telescope... New form of matter found in cosmic-ray bombardments... Undergraduates plan rocket study with new society... |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2011
Jon Cartright |
New molecule could propel rockets The largest nitrogen oxide molecule discovered to date could function as a rocket propellant, according to chemists in Sweden who have synthesised it for the first time. |
National Defense
January 2015
Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Space Programs on Hold as New Architecture Studied The Air Force is in the throes of conducting several studies that service officials say may lead to a radically new space architecture. Meanwhile, getting space system acquisition right is more important than ever. |
Chemistry World
May 18, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
Rocket fuel goes green with ionic liquids Military researchers in the US have developed a novel 'green' rocket fuel whose constituents are less corrosive and toxic than those used in conventional propellant systems. |
BusinessWeek
August 9, 2004
Jason Bush |
A Renaissance For Russian Science Student enrollments are up, and multinationals are chasing grads. However, without an influx of qualified teachers, Russian science may be living on borrowed time. |
Inc.
April 2007
Mike Hofman |
How I Did It: Howard Dahl, President and CEO, Amity Technology Negotiating with commissars. Bartering for payment. Surviving the crash of the ruble. Howard Dahl has found doing business in the former Soviet Union to be intellectually exhilarating and spiritually rewarding. |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Marriage of Convenience Lockheed Martin and Boeing to join forces on U.S. government rocket contracts. |
BusinessWeek
March 8, 2004
Moon Ihlwan in Seoul |
Want Innovation? Hire A Russian Korean companies are cashing in by signing up low-cost engineers |
Popular Mechanics
October 1999
Cliff Gromer |
Putting On The Pressure ...And while one major outboard manufacturer is now struggling to stem the plague that's crippling its engines (and its reputation), along comes Yamaha with impressive new two-stroke technology for its 2000 model year engines.... |
