China s aerospace technology researchers announced Tuesday that for the first time the country has conducted a verification flight test on a domestically developed reusable liquid oxygen kerosene engine.
month or so. this is a new vehicle and these things happen, unfortunately. it is using heritage hardware, the space shuttle main engine is very well understood, it is using the backbone, if you will, of the external tank of the shuttle, also well understood, so i am a little surprised that there have been the issues that have been but, you know, we have to deal with it and flight when we are ready. lastly, and briefly, we want to try to get humans back on the moon as soon as possible is the aim of nasa, 2025, what is your betting on whether that actually happens? i don t think we will get humans back on the surface of the moon by 2025, i think maybe by then we can get an apollo eight type mission that launches astronauts into orbit around the mode but not land, and the reason i say that is because we do not have a lander yet. we have
More than a decade after NASA landed its last space shuttle, parts from all five orbiters are set to launch again, this time to the moon. Components from 83 shuttle missions are on Artemis 1.
Cambridge spinout Protolaunch is developing a throttleable rocket engine for smallsat launches that may one day also be used for a lunar lander. Andrew Wade reports.
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