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New Glenn is a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle developed by Blue Origin, named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth. [7] New Glenn is a two-stage rocket with a diameter of 7 m (23 ft). Its first stage is powered by seven BE-4 engines that are also designed and manufactured by Blue Origin.
12.2 feet (3.7 m) Dry weight. 18,500 lb (8,400 kg) Used in. Saturn V. The F-1, commonly known as Rocketdyne F-1, is a rocket engine developed by Rocketdyne. The engine uses a gas-generator cycle developed in the United States in the late 1950s and was used in the Saturn V rocket in the 1960s and early 1970s.
The Space Launch System ( SLS) is an American super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA. As the primary launch vehicle of the Artemis Moon landing program, SLS is designed to launch the crewed Orion spacecraft on a trans-lunar trajectory. The first SLS launch was the uncrewed Artemis 1, which took place on 16 November 2022.
The launch contract with Rocket Lab has a value of US$9.95 million, according to NASA. Rocket Lab's new launch pad in Virginia, designated Launch Complex 2, was completed in 2019 and was hoped to be ready to support launches by 2021. The company said the new facility would principally support Electron missions with U.S. government payloads.
List of NASA missions. Comparison of NASA Mercury, Gemini, :) Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. [1]
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA 's New Frontiers program. [5] Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern, [6] the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study ...
Archimedes was presented on December 2, 2021, in a webcast by Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck. [4] It was presented as a fully reusable, gas generator engine using LOX and methane as propellant, a departure from the company's previous Rutherford, which is electrically pump fed. He then stated that it had a thrust of 1 MN (220,000 lbf) and 320 seconds ...