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VASIMR
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Since 2005, the Ad Astra Rocket Company of Webster, Texas, has been working to perfect a type of engine it calls VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket). It uses radio waves to heat argon gas, turning it into a hot plasma a state of matter in which electrons are no longer bound to atomi...
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The V-1
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(Old news) Germany launches the first V-1 rocket attacks against London. It is the first guided-missile strike against an enemy city in the history of warfare. The V-1, one of Nazi Germany's so-called "wonder weapons," had been in development during the '30s but research slowed when a G...
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Rohini Sounding Rocket launch
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch a series of rockets from its two launch centres between Thursday and Sunday to study Friday's solar eclipse and its after-effects. A rare and longest annular solar eclipse of this millennium will occur on Friday visible in the southern par...
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Bumper V-2
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The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral A new chapter in space flight began on 1950 July with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida: the Bumper V-2. Read more
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Operation Sandy
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Operation Sandy was the codename for the post-World War II launch of a captured V-2 rocket from the deck of the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Midway on September 6, 1947. It marked the first launch of a large rocket, and the only time for a V-2, from a ship at sea. Read more [video=http://www.y...
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Test Stand VII
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Test Stand VII (German: Prüfstand VII, P-7) was the principal V-2 rocket testing facility at Peenemünde Airfield and was capable of static firing of rocket motors up to 200 tons thrust. Notable events at the site include the first successful V-2 launch on October 3, 1942, visits by German military l...
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