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Home Guards load a rocket launcher on a static 'Z' Battery on Merseyside, July 1942. The solid-fuel 3 in (76 mm) rocket used by the Z Batteries was known as the UP-3 (Unrotated Projectile) and had been developed in the late 1930s by the Projectile Development Establishment at Fort Halstead in Kent under the direction of Alwyn Crow.
The Arizona-based company plans to manufacture enough rockets to launch 100 missions a year. Cantrell has described Phantom Space as wanting to be the "Henry Ford" of the space industry, [4] referring to the company's efforts to mass produce rockets and space vehicles. On the docket is Phantom's Daytona rocket, which is about 61 feet long and ...
The United Kingdom, Russia, South Korea and China plan to return samples from Mars by around 2031 or 2032. A joint NASA/ESA project plans to return samples from Mars by 2033. Dragonfly is expected to reach Titan in 2036.
Project Horizon Lunar Outpost as it would appear by late 1965. Project Horizon was a 1959 study to determine the feasibility of constructing a scientific / military base on the Moon, at a time when the U.S. Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, and Department of the Air Force had total responsibility for U.S. space program plans.
In November 2005, [3] before SpaceX had launched its first rocket, the Falcon 1, [4] CEO Elon Musk first mentioned a high-capacity rocket concept able to launch 100 t (220,000 lb) to low Earth orbit, dubbed the BFR. [3] Later in 2012, Elon Musk first publicly announced plans to develop a rocket surpassing the capabilities of the existing Falcon ...
Grasshopper began flight testing in September 2012 with a brief, three-second hop, followed by a second hop in November 2012 with an 8-second flight that took the testbed approximately 5.4 m (18 ft) off the ground, and a third flight in December 2012 of 29 seconds duration, with extended hover under rocket engine power, in which it ascended to ...
By early 2020, Stratolaunch was developing the Talon-A reusable, rocket-powered, hypersonic flight vehicle (the Vulcan Aerospace Hyper-A concept in 2018), intended to reach Mach 5-7 after launch. Single Talon-A launch flights were planned for 2022, with an ambitious target to carry up to three hypersonic vehicles at once the following year.
Plans are being proposed for SpaceX Starship operations from LC-37 in near future, as the Delta family's last rocket, i.e., Delta IV Heavy retired in April 2024. [1] The draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) by the Federal Aviation Administration is due in December 2024, with a final study by September 2025.