A test rocket aimed at kick-starting satellite launches from Europe fell to the ground and exploded 40 seconds after its ...

There are no customer satellites aboard the first Spectrum test flight. The rocket will climb into a polar orbit from Andøya ...

Walter Dornberger (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1980-009-33 / CC-BY-SA 3.0) This is the world in which V-2, written by the head of the German rocket development program Walter Dornberger, takes place.

By 1943, the V-2 missile could climb to an altitude of up to 80 km and Heylandt "worked on increasing the flight altitude to 120 km for a possibility to bombard the United States from the ...

Following the successful restoration of a German V-2 ballistic missile, the museum’s Preservation and Restoration Unit is now completing work on a V-1 cruise missile. This “buzz bomb,” a ...

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By 1942 they had successfully test-launched a flying bomb (the V-1) and a supersonic missile (the V-2). Hitler believed these ‘vengeance’ weapons would win him the war. Aerial intelligence ...

It was the largest German rocket since V-2, the Nazi-era rocket that has often been described as having launched the space age and was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile.

At the time, one of the co-founders, Daniel Metzler, led a team of 40 students working on rocket engines and launching sounding rockets. Josef Fleischmann was on the team that won the first SpaceX ...