ERPS members fly the KISS Beta test vehicle at Fresno Tripoli HPR meet.
Members of ERPS check out the static engine test facilities at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in Mojave.
About a dozen ERPS members got a tour of SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, CA.
E.R.P.S. members from the K.I.S.S. vehicle team prep the static stand at F.A.R. for an engine firing.
Launch preparations for Gravity-1 aboard the Defu-15002 sea platform. Credit: Orienspace HELSINKI — A young Chinese launch startup has reached orbit with its Gravity-1 all-solid launch vehicle, smashing the record for payload capacity for Chinese commercial rockets. Orienspace’s Gravity-1 rocket
Starlink’s Direct to Cell satellites to fill in dead spots in T-Mobile network. JON BRODKIN – 1/11/2024, 1:03 PM Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability. SpaceX is showing off the first text messages sent between T-Mobile phones via one of Starlink’s
Jessica Jensen, vice president of customer operations and integration at SpaceX, said securing an updated Federal Aviation Administration launch license was the key factor driving the schedule for the third Starship test flight. The third flight should be sometime in
NASA’s rolled out the new X-59 Quesst supersonic aircraft live from Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. Quesst is NASA’s mission to demonstrate how the X-59 can fly supersonic without generating loud sonic booms, and then survey what
Washington DC, January 12, 2024 – In a new report released yesterday, NASA outlined how developing Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) can provide a strategic clean energy source for the United States. Their analysis underscores the carbon reduction and economic growth
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG/S Martin The European Space Agency has announced that it is targeting 15 November for the return to flight of the grounded Avio-built Vega C launch vehicle. Vega C was grounded following a failed flight in
Graphic depiction of Swarming Proxima Centauri: Coherent Picospacecraft Swarms Over Interstellar DistancesThomas Eubanks Thomas Eubanks Space Initiatives, Inc. Tiny gram-scale interstellar probes pushed by laser light are likely to be the only technology capable of reaching another star this century.
NASA’s Mars Sample Return program is the agency’s highest priority in planetary science, but projected multibillion-dollar overruns have some calling the plan a “dumpster fire” BY LEONARD DAVID An artist’s impression of NASA’s Perseverance rover exploring Mars. As part of
UPDATE #6 FOR PEREGRINE MISSION ONE: An ongoing propellant leak is causing the spacecraft’s Attitude Control System (ACS) thrusters to operate well beyond their expected service life cycles to keep the lander from an uncontrollable tumble. If the thrusters can
Jeff Foust January 9, 2024 The Artemis 2 astronauts inspect their Orion spacecraft. Issues with the spacecraft have delayed the mission to September 2025. Credit: NASA NEW ORLEANS — NASA is postponing the next two Artemis missions, including the first