Rocket Lab launches more rockets at a faster pace than any rival and is expanding into satellites and deep-space missions.

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

A full decade after SpaceX pioneered reusable rocketry with the first-ever successful landing of its Falcon 9 booster, the rest of the world is finally catching up. These few successes aren’t based on ...

Ever wondered why rockets seem to bend their trajectory during launch? It all comes down to something called gravity turn, where the rocket gradually tilts to follow the curvature of the Earth. It ...

Mars Sample Return would have turbo-charged Rocket Lab's revenue and added a feather to its cap.

Malina was also a pacifist and anti-fascist, a card-carrying member of the Communist party, and a painter and pioneer in the field of kinetic art – where motion, be it mechanically or naturally ...

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