Deep Blue Aerospace, a private rocket company, plans a second high-altitude vertical takeoff and vertical landing test of its Nebula-1 rocket in November, the company announced. "Based on what we learned from the first test, we will conduct another high-altitude vertical recovery flight in November," the company said. The VTVL test, also known as a hop test, involves a rocket …
LandSpace, a leading private rocket manufacturer in China, made significant progress toward developing a reusable carrier rocket on Wednesday with a successful technological demonstration. The Beijing-based company conducted a "vertical takeoff and vertical landing" test at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert. The experimental rocket, named VTVL-1, lifted off, reached an altitude of 10 kilometers, and …
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's leading space contractor, conducted a significant technological test on Sunday, bringing the company closer to its goal of building the nation's first reusable carrier rocket. The state-owned conglomerate announced that one of its subsidiaries, the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, used an experimental rocket to perform a "hop test" at the Jiuquan …
