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Want to Look Inside a Burning Rocket Engine?

September 24, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Here’s a bit of pretty amazing hobby rocket porn. Ben Krasnow walks us through — in a rather matter-of-fact way — of how he built a hybrid rocket engine in his shop using a piece of acrylic so he could see [...]

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Soyuz Rocket’s Comet-like Re-Entry Captured on Video

December 26, 2011

Part of the Soyuz rocket that brought the latest trio of crew members to the International Space Station fell back to Earth on Dec. 24, and its fiery re-entry was captured by several skywatchers in Europe. This footage taken from Germany is the best view of it, and there’s another good view below. Some people [...]

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Comet Curiosity? MSL Looks Like a Comet as it Heads Toward Mars

November 28, 2011

What does a spacecraft look like as it lights-out for another world? This incredible time-lapse video was taken by astronomers at the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium in Australia. The sequence shows a plume drifting against the background stars, probably caused by venting from the Centaur rocket stage that sent the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity Rover on [...]

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Video: Amazing Amateur Rocket Launch Reaches 121,000 feet

October 9, 2011

Wow! Take a look at this for a little “bang! zoom!” in your day! This video shows an incredible video of an amateur rocket launch, which could be eligible for a $5,000 rocketry prize. Led by Derek Deville, the rocketeers launched their custom-built 26 ft. (8 meter) Qu8k (pronounced “Quake”) rocket on September 30, 2011 [...]

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Project Morpheus Fires Up Its Engines

April 20, 2011

Project Morpheus ran a series of hot fire tests yesterday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Morpheus is a prototype launch vehicle for the lunar surface, an outgrowth of Project M, which was at first a rather “secretive” project, designed to land a Robonaut on the Moon. The Morpheus lander is a larger version [...]

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