Skyroot Aerospace, the Indian firm that launched the country's first privately-built rocket has now announced a new milestone - the test firing of a 3-D printed Cryogenic Engine for a duration of 200 seconds.

Indian firm test fires 3-D printed cryogenic engine; spacefaring rocket launch by 2023 end

Virgin Orbit, the rocket company of British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, announced that it is laying off 85 per cent of its staff after the firm failed to get new investment.

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit lays off 85 per cent of employees

Announcing the successful launch of India's heaviest rocket LVM3 in its second commercial mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that all 36 satellites belonging to OneWeb were injected into the intended orbit.

Largest rocket LVM3 places 36 satellites in orbit, augments confidence for Gaganyaan: ISRO chairman

India's largest rocket LVM3 is at the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, getting ready for the lift-off at 9 am on Sunday, March 26.

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Rocket launches have been going on for decades. But what happens after a single-use rocket does its part? There is no further use of the machinery. Though now international conventions try to lessen the debris around the Earth, it was often a practice of space agencies to leave the defunct rockets in space.

Soviet-era rocket launched in 1980 makes re-entry, falls in Arctic region of Russia

NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research arm of the US Department of Defense, have unveiled plans to test nuclear-powered rockets that would one day fly humans to Mars.

Is NASA planning to test a nuclear-powered rocket engine?

Virgin Orbit reported an “anomaly” in its rocket on Tuesday that stopped it from reaching orbit, ending Britain's attempt to become the first European country to launch a satellite into space.

UK’s historic satellite launch fails to reach orbit after rocket ‘anomaly’

ISRO has largely been focusing on launching towering rockets like the PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle), GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) and the SSLV (Small Satellite Launch Vehicle).

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India's first privately developed rocket has been sent into orbit by Skyroot Aerospace on Friday, marking the nation's first private space launch. The Vikram-S launch vehicle is intended to carry out the Prarambh mission as a demonstration flight in the second week of November.

Vikram-S: India's first private rocket blasts off successfully, everything about 'Prarambh Mission'

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said, that it has increased the carrying capacity of its LVM3 (GSLV MkIII) rocket by 450 kg with additional propellant loading of its cryogenic engine CE20

ISRO increases carrying capacity of LVM3 rocket by 450kg

India is making some big leaps in the space sector and this is of course something that is expected to come in the next forthcoming year as well.

LVM3 Rocket: Indian Space Agency carries out engine test, being readied to lift more payload

Agnikul Cosmos, an Indian firm has successfully test-fired its single-piece, 3D-printed rocket engine at a facility of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

Indian firm successfully test-fires 3D-printed rocket engine at ISRO facility

In a development sure to make the US unhappy, Iran's Revolutionary Guards tested a new satellite-launching rocket on Saturday (November 5). Images shown on state media depicted the Ghaem 100 satellite carrier taking off.

Iran tests satellite-carrying rocket, US calls it unhelpful and destabilising action

The Indian Space agency has 4 variants of rockets in its fleet and all of them will be heading for space over the next 5 months. Indicating that a busy mission schedule lay ahead for the Indian Space Research Organization, Chairman, Dr.

5 launches planned in 5 months; LVM3 to be made by industry: ISRO chairman

In order to solidify its position in the worldwide market for commercial satellite launches, India's space agency Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched 36 satellites using its biggest rocket just after midnight on Sunday.

ISRO's heaviest rocket successfully places 36 OneWeb satellites into orbits in first commercial flight

"The PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket has done more than 50 launches to date and another 30 PSLV launches are in the offing. We are very clear with regards the utility/purpose of the next 30 launches.

ISRO must think beyond PSLV & GSLV; teams are working on next-gen rockets, says chairman

Preparations are in full swing in India's spaceport at Satish Dhawan Space Centre(SDSC), as the country gears up for the maiden commercial launch of the GSLV Mark3 rocket.

India's heaviest rocket, GSLVMk3 undergoing final assembly ahead of October-end launch

A SpaceX spaceship blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the International Space Station, carrying a Russian crewmate, in a voyage that carries symbolic significance amid the Ukraine war.

NASA launches a Russian cosmonaut on a SpaceX rocket

General Charles Flynn, commander of the US Army in the Pacific, stated that even after the joint training they were employed in, he is not in a hurry to remove rocket launchers and other equipment from a Japanese army camp on the edge of the East China Sea.

US wants to keep rocket launchers at frontline Japanese base at edge of East China Sea

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) recently announced the successful test of a supersonic 'Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator' (IAD). The IAD was indigenously designed by ISRO's lead facility, the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre(VSSC), and was realised by the Indian industry.

ISRO: Indigenously designed and developed supersonic decelerator test successful

A fuel leak that first surfaced during a dress rehearsal in the spring resurfaced early on Monday, interfering with NASA's countdown to the launch of its new moon rocket.

Leak and weather hamper launch countdown of NASA's Artemis mission

The massive Space Launch System moon rocket from NASA, which is topped with an uncrewed astronaut capsule, started an hours-long crawl to its launchpad on Tuesday night in preparation for the behemoth's first test flight this month.

NASA's massive US moon rocket emerges for debut launch

European Space Agency (ESA) launched its latest Vega-C rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana. The ESA wants to make Europe more competitive in the satellite market.

European Space Agency (ESA) launches new Vega-C rocket

President Joe Biden said Monday that the US won't supply Ukraine with long-range rocket systems that can hit Russian territory. Biden did not elaborate on which specific long-range rocket systems the US had ruled out sending.

US President Joe Biden says 'won't send rockets that could reach Russia'

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