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SpaceX Lights Up Its Raptor Engine For The First Time
By 2016.09.26 0 Comments Read More →

SpaceX Lights Up Its Raptor Engine For The First Time

SpaceX has announced the first test firing of its next generation Raptor engine. Word came, as it so often does, via Elon Musk’s Twitter account:   SpaceX propulsion just achieved first firing of the Raptor interplanetary transport engine pic.twitter.com/vRleyJvBkx — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 26, 2016 A series of follow up tweets provided a bit […]

Posted in: Launch Vehicle Development, SpaceX
“Space Settling for Less” : ULA Dismissal Underscores the High Costs of Low Expectations
By 2016.03.17 1 Comments Read More →

“Space Settling for Less” : ULA Dismissal Underscores the High Costs of Low Expectations

Editorial: It is has not been a particularly good week for United Launch Alliance, and especially for now former VP of Engineering Brett Tobey, who resigned after making a number of controversial comments during a speech at the University of Colorado-Boulder. The story has unfolded in a flurry of articles in Space News, which on […]

Posted in: Editorials, United Launch Alliance
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