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KRQT (107.1 FM, "Rocket 107 Classic Rock") is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock music format. [2] Licensed to Castle Rock, Washington , United States, the station is currently owned by Bicoastal Media Licenses IV, LLC and features programming from Citadel Media .
RocketDock** is an application launcher developed by PolyVector and Skunkie of Punk Labs, in collaboration with artist Zachary Denton Q. It is designed for Windows and offers a dock similar to the one found in the Mac OS X Aqua graphical user interface.
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The WFF mobile range assets have been used to support rocket launches from locations in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, South America, Africa, Europe, Australia, and at sea. Workers at Wallops include approximately 1,000 full-time NASA civil service employees and the employees of contractors, about 30 U.S. Navy personnel, and about 100 ...
Nova is a fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle being developed by Stoke Space. [16] Announced in October 2023, [17] Stoke Space plans to use two stages with an expected payload capacity of 5 tons (5,000 kg) to low Earth orbit (), with the first stage performing a return-to-launch-site (RTLS) landing.
Flight 16 ("Return to Sender"), was the first to recover the first stage booster, with a splashdown into the Pacific Ocean. [53] [54] The rocket also lofted thirty payloads into Sun-synchronous orbit, including a titanium mass simulator in the shape of the garden gnome "Gnome Chompski" from the video game Half-Life 2. [55] [56]
The rocket had a diameter of 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) for the first stage and 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in) for the second stage and payload fairing. [ 4 ] On the 24th of October 2019, the company announced plans to develop a three-stage variant that would be capable of launching 100 kg (220 lb) to the Moon , 70 kg (150 lb) to Venus , or 50 kg (110 lb) to Mars .
The first sortie carried the rocket and launcher, and the second sortie fired an inert, unguided rocket to ensure the weapon would separate from the aircraft. Two armed rockets were fired during the third sortie from 10,000 and 15,000 feet. The second rocket launched into a 70 knot headwind, and both impacted within inches of the target.