A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket successfully launched the second Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) GEO-2 satellite for the U.S. Air Force at 5:21 p.m. EDT today from Space Launch Complex-41. ULA launched the first satellite in the constellation, GEO-1, aboard and Atlas V on May 7, 2011. This was the 3rd ULA launch […]
Blue Origin recently completed acceptance testing of its BE‑3 rocket engine, the first new hydrogen engine to be developed in the United States in more than a decade. The 110,000-lbf BE‑3 will power Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital system, and later, will be modified for upper stage applications. “The BE‑3 has now been fired for […]
With a blast of smoke and flame, SpaceX fired up the first stage engines of a Falcon 9 rocket this afternoon during final pre-mission countdown practice in preparation for the company’s third NASA-contracted ISS resupply mission. At the end of the count, the 9 Merlin-1C engines roared to life for three seconds to test the […]
