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Rocket launches may need regulation to prevent ozone depletion

— 1 Apr 2009 13:31 | Environment

The global market for rocket launches may require more stringent regulation in order to prevent significant damage to Earth's stratospheric ozone layer in the decades to come, according... — full story

Clemson scientists launch rockets to test atmospheric conditions

— 27 Feb 2009 14:20 | Technology

Clemson University space physicists have travelled around the world to launch rockets to test atmospheric conditions. This shows the fourth launch of a rocket at Poker Flat Research... — full story

MIT rocket aims for cheaper nudges in space

— 24 Feb 2009 13:20 | Technology

Satellites orbiting the Earth must occasionally be nudged to stay on the correct path. MIT scientists are developing a new rocket that could make this and other spacecraft manoeuvres... — full story

Scientists funded to design concepts for NASA microgravity experiments

— 18 Sep 2008 22:14 | Astronomy

Two University of Leicester scientists have recently been awarded $10,000 to design concepts for scientific experiments which would fly on the upcoming new generation of manned suborbital... — full story

UM Amherst researchers to upgrade safety and performance of rocket fuel

— 30 May 2008 15:40 | Technology

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have received a $1 million grant from the U. S. Department of Defence to boost the safety and performance of fuel used in thousands... — full story

At the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, a worker looks over the star tracker sun shades just installed on the GLAST spacecraft, (c) NASA, Kim ShiflettGLAST gets shades, blankets for the beach

— 14 May 2008 11:04 | Astronomy

NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is receiving finishing touches at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, near the beaches of eastern central Florida for its launch.... — full story

Artist rendering of the GLAST satellite, (c) NASA, Sonoma State University, Aurore SimonnetDelta II rocket coming together for GLAST satellite launch

— 15 Apr 2008 15:01 | Technology

The Delta II 7920-H, or 'Heavy,' rocket that will launch NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) satellite is in the process of being assembled on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral... — full story

A small combustor subjected to the acoustic oscillations that have destroyed rockets and other types of engines, (c) Georgia Institute of TechnologyRocket mystery explained with new imaging technique

— 10 Apr 2008 10:53 | Physics

There's a strange wave phenomenon that's plagued rocket scientists for years, a lurking threat with the power to destroy an engine at almost any time. For decades, scientists have had... — full story

Timothee Pourpoint, a senior research scientist in Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, adjusts valves needed to direct the flow of hydrogen and nitrogen in a bulk high-pressure hydrogen storage and feed system at the university's Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories. The system is critical for research to develop a new hydrogen storage system for cars and for NASA-funded research related to the J-2X rocket engine for future missions to Mars and the moon, (c) Purdue News Service photo, David UmbergerNew Purdue University facility aims to improve NASA moon rocket engine

— 12 Mar 2008 14:54 | Astronomy

Purdue University engineers are conducting experiments using a new hydrogen facility to help NASA create designs to improve the cooling efficiency and performance of the J-2X rocket... — full story

Dr Clark Hawk, director of Propulsion Research Centre at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, (c) University of Alabama HuntsvillePropulsion technology mostly unchanged after 50 years

— 31 Jan 2008 13:46 | Astronomy

Although it's been a half century since America entered the space age, the basic propulsion concepts used to push Explorer I into space will be the same type of propulsion that the... — full story

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