Enlarge / Leaked ULA emails are highly critical of Steve Jurczyk, who was NASA acting administrator this spring. (credit: NASA) In what appear to be legitimate emails from April and May, a senior official of the US rocket company United Launch Alliance (ULA) characterizes the leadership of NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) as “incompetent […]
Enlarge / An Atlas V rocket launches in December 2012. (credit: United Launch Alliance) Amazon announced on Monday that its first Project Kuiper satellites will launch into low Earth orbit on an Atlas V rocket. The announcement provides concrete evidence that the ambitious Internet-from-space project is making progress. It is also notable for the choice […]
Expand / / A BE-4 rocket engine extends evaluations in West Texas. (charge: Blue Origin) Blue Origin seems to have solved any improvement problems linked to the turbopumps in its own strong BE-4 rocket engine. United Launch Alliance chief executive Tory Bruno stated Friday that the issue has been”sorted out,” and the full scale, flight-configured […]