Tag: rocket
Virgin Orbit takes step closer to LauncherOne rocket launch
WATCH: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch in 4K
Blow me up Scotty: James Doohan's ashes scattered with Falcon 1
You may have already read about SpaceX’s failure to get their privately funded rocketship Falcon 1 into space on Saturday night, but just what you may have missed is the news that stowed onboard the doomed rocket-ship, ready for delivery to space, were three commercial satellites and the cremated remains of 200 people.
Of those 200 urns of ashes blown into mile-high confetti, one happened to contain the remains of everyone’s favourite Scottish Star Trek engineer: Montgomery “Scotty” Scott (actor James Doohan)…
Forget Air Racing – say hello to Rocket Racing
The Rocket Racing League launched its first ever rocket-powered racing plane this week in what it hopes will be the first of many high speed, highly combustible, aerobatic demonstrations.
Steve Bennett, 43, from Manchester, has made a rocket. It'll be ready in 2013
Three cheers for British entrepreneurs! That man there is Steve Bennett. He’s built a rocket called Nova 2.
Steve’s rocket is a three-seater, one which he hopes is going to make him one of Britain’s first “space tourism” millionaires. He heads up the Space Technology Laboratory (!) of Salford University (!!) and has spent…
European manned spaceship shown off in Berlin – Patrick Moore still in with a chance before he dies
It’s only a prototype, but the new EADS Astrium design here is based on the existing unmanned Jules Verne pod already flying about up there, so it could easily take scientists and paying billionaires up into the ionosphere with a bit of tweaking.
Very handy if you’ve recently applied to be an astronaut or are just generally excited about space things…
Australian man finds bit of rocket – then hands it in
Who would hand in a bit of rocket? If I found a bit of rocket, it’d be up on the mantelpiece the same day. Regardless of health implications from cosmic radiation or half-melted fuel cells.
The man in questions is James Stirton. The rocket part in question is unknown, as James has been on the phone to NASA to try and find out exactly what it is he’s just…
Win a Brando USB missile launcher with Tech Digest!
Christmas is coming early this year on Tech Digest, with a product give-away each day for the next fortnight, thanks to Brando.
You may’ve missed yesterday’s iSharpener give-away, but today you can win yourself something even better. Normally retailing at $35 in the US, the launcher…
The life size X-Wing fighter (made out of birch wood)
It’s just a glorified rocket. Four rocket engines, in fact, stuck to the wings of the thing so it’ll actually fly.
An aluminium core gives it a bit of strength, enough to support a series of internal motors, designed to unfold the wings of the 21-foot long craft during its flight, for that realistic, about-to-tackle-the-Death Star look…
The Digital Video Rocket – for your own Google Maps service
The Digital Video Rocket is a little home rocket, for amateur enthusiasts to fire off and, hopefully, avoid hospitalising themselves with severe burns.
The beauty of this potentially dangerous thing is its shock-resistant nose cone, which houses a little digital camera…
