Rocket Design

Blue Origin’s BE-3 Succeeds in Full Mission Cycle Test

By Göktuğ Karacalıoğlu on December 9, 2013

Close up of the BE-3 static fire test (Credits: Blue Origin). Blue Origin successfully made a static firing test of its Blue Engine-3,... Read more →

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India’s Mars Orbiter Mission Settled into Flight

By Siddharth Raval on December 7, 2013

India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), performed the Trans-Mars Injection (TMI) on 1st December, and is off on its long journey towards Mars. The... Read more →

Skylab

All the King’s Horses: The Final Mission to Skylab (Part 4)

By AmericaSpace on December 6, 2013

This is the final installment of a four part series on the final Skylab mission. Follow the link to Catch up on Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Forty... Read more →

Skylab

All the King’s Horses: The Final Mission to Skylab (Part 3)

By AmericaSpace on December 5, 2013

This is the third part of a four part series on the final Skylab mission. Follow the link to Catch up on Part 1 and Part 2. The crew of... Read more →

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Cheng’e-3 Launch May Have Dropped Debris on Village

By Merryl Azriel on December 4, 2013

Debris from the Chang'e-3 moon-mission rocket launch reportedly hit some small villages in southwest China (Credits: Weibo). According to an... Read more →

News

In Third Launch Campaign, Falcon 9 Successfully Kicks-off into GTO

By Göktuğ Karacalıoğlu on December 4, 2013

Falcon 9 v1.1 lifts-off from Cape Canaveral for its first GTO mission (Credits: SpaceX). SpaceX’s upgraded Falcon 9 (v1.1) successfully... Read more →