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All-female rocket team from UTSA to compete at NASA competition
A blend of calculations and creativity led a group of UTSA students to design a rocket that will take flight during an ...
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US students to push hypersonic boundaries with new spacecraft on NASA rocket mission
Fourth-year undergraduate students aim to be the first to obtain vital reentry data with affordable, small spacecraft ...
An Engineer Says He’s Found a Way to Overcome Earth’s Gravity
This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.
Reusable rockets are here, so why is NASA paying more to launch stuff to space?
In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch ...
It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission
For now, it looks like NASA’s orange behemoth has a little life left in it. All the hardware for the Artemis II mission has arrived at the launch site in Florida.
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NASA bound: 5 things to know about Hawaiʻi’s rocket team
The 2025 NASA Student Launch Competition challenges college teams to design, build and launch high-powered rockets. HPU is the only university in Hawai‘i competing in the event. The competition ...
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Fusion Rockets Could Theoretically Cut Our Travel Time to Mars in Half. This U.K. Startup Wants to Give It a Try
The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...
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Pulsar Fusion unveils vision for ‘Sunbird’ nuclear rocket to reach Mars in half the time (video)
Theoretically, Sunbird's tremendous speeds could cut mission times to Mars in half, from seven to eight months to about four.