Move crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility lift the aft liquid oxygen tank (LOX) barrel out of the Vertical Weld Center (VWC) for its next phase of production. The aft barrel will eventually be ...
XCOR announced today that it has achieved a key technical milestone with its flight weight rocket piston pump hardware. XCOR engineers have successfully and repeatedly pumped liquid oxygen (LOX) at ...
The SpaceX team submitted our report to the FAA regarding Falcon 9’s launch anomaly, including likely cause and associated corrective actions. The FAA grounded the SpaceX Falcon 9 after an in space ...
The FAA grounded the SpaceX Falcon 9 after an in space failure of the Falcon 9 upper stage. There was a liquid oxygen leak. SpaceX had a good first burn and deployed the satellites but did not get ...
On Wednesday, China’s private space company LandSpace launched Zhuque-2, its first liquid oxygen methane-fueled rocket at China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, following the planned trajectory.
BROWNSVILLE — Cameron County has given SpaceX the green light to build an air separator facility less than 300 feet from the region’s sand dunes, frustrating locals concerned about the effect on ...
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