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iRocket (Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc) is a startup based in New York, founded in 2018, which develops rocket engines and a small reusable launch vehicle named Shockwave. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2021 iRocket signed a Space Act Agreement With NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to accelerate the development of its reusable rocket engine.
ID-1, ID-2, ID-3 and unnamed 2-stage rocket engine for DNLV solid rocket motor and liquid rocket engine: used on ID-1, ID-2 and DNLV rocket Borneo SubOrbitals: Malaysia hybrid rocket: used on yet-to-be-named rocket Apollo Fusion United States ACE, ACE Max Hall-effect thruster: To be used on Spaceflight, Inc.'s Sherpa-LTE space tug [46]
Hermes A-1 Rocket test at White Sands, New Mexico. The Hermes A-1 used engines tested in Malta. Malta Test Station, located in Malta, New York, is a former US Army fuel and explosives testing facility. It was established in 1945 and used to test rocket engines for the US Army's "Project Hermes", new fuels and explosives. [1]
In July 2012, United Technologies Corporation agreed to sell Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to GenCorp,Inc., which also owns rocket engine producer Aerojet. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The sale was completed in June 2013, when the company was merged with Aerojet to form Aerojet Rocketdyne .
The SARGE suborbital sounding rocket is designed to be reusable. As of 27 October 2019, no SARGE rocket had reached its intended suborbital altitude. [5] However, the same rocket was launched four times between 2018 and 2019, demonstrating its reusability. EXOS Aerospace operates from Spaceport America in New Mexico. On 14 February 2018, the ...
The Orbital Sciences X-34 was intended to be a low-cost testbed for demonstrating "key technologies" that could be integrated into the Reusable Launch Vehicle program. It was intended to be an autonomous pilotless craft powered by a "Fastrac" liquid-propellant rocket engine, capable of reaching Mach 8 and performing 25 test flights per year.
A Soyuz-FG rocket launches from "Gagarin's Start" (Site 1/5), Baikonur Cosmodrome. A rocket (from Italian: rocchetto, lit. ''bobbin/spool'', and so named for its shape) [nb 1] [1] is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using any surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. [2]
The term has grown somewhat obsolete since 2003 as New York tech companies spread outside of Manhattan, and New York as a whole is now a top-tier global high technology hub. [2] Silicon Alley, once a metonym for the sphere encompassing the metropolitan region's high technology industries, [ 3 ] is no longer a relevant moniker as the city's tech ...