Rocket Thrusters News Today

From reusing rockets on Earth to building giant telescopes and miniaturizing thrusters, these are the top 7 space technology news of 2023.

Seven years and 4 billion miles after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully dropped off a capsule containing a precious sample of one near-Earth asteroid — and is now on course to rendezvous with another one in 2029. Rocket thrusters built at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s facility in Redmond, Wash., have been guiding the bus-sized probe every step of the way. Today marked the climax of OSIRIS-REx — which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource...

YouTuber Matt Mikka added jet engines to his Tesla. He built the system from scratch, and it made his 0 to 60 time over a second faster.

Youtuber Matt Mikka attached three jet engines to his Tesla Model S, improving its 0-60 mph (97 kph) performance by almost one second. The move might be contrary to Elon Musk's mission to save the world, but Mikka did it anyway.

30 January 2021, 5:09 am EST By After the highly-anticipated return of man to the moon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as well as private space company SpaceX headed by Elon Musk, is planning to finally step on Martian soil for the first time and maybe even create a colony that could thrive in the Red Planet--but how will they do that? (Photo : Pexels) Prolonged Space Travel Issues Although space travel is rather common, what with astronauts going to and fro the Inte...