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People may know Artemis as NASA’s return-to-the-Moon program. However, it is much more than a rerun of Project Apollo.
Welcome to Edition 8.35 of the Rocket Report! The headlines this week are again dominated by the big changes afoot in NASA’s exploration program, with the announcement of a Moon base and a nuclear-powered rocket to Mars.
Rocket Lab, a provider of launch services and spacecraft, announced it won a $190 million Pentagon contract for 20 hypersonic test flights. The award, issued by the Pentagon’s Test Resource Management Center under its Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed,
On Oct. 6, the German Aerospace Center (DLR, Braunschweig) launched a 13.5-meter-long research rocket for the Advanced Technologies for High Energetic Atmospheric Flight of Launcher Stages (ATHEAt) program from the Andøya launch site in northern Norway.