This launcher is about to displace the V-2 as Germany’s largest rocket
There are no customer satellites aboard the first Spectrum test flight. The rocket will climb into a polar orbit from Andøya ...
Germany’s largest rocket since V-2 crashes and explodes seconds after launch
A test rocket aimed at kick-starting satellite launches from Europe fell to the ground and exploded 40 seconds after its ...
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Books You Should Read: V-2 By Walter Dornberger
Dornberger and his team wanted to create ... and while he often comments on the young engineer’s brilliance, he makes it clear that the development of the V-2 rocket was not the accomplishment ...
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The German Space Program That Never Was
In his book, V-2, Walter Dornberger mentions some of the fantastic ideas he and his team bounced back and forth at Peenemünde: With our big rocket motors and step rockets we could build space ...
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The rocket that launched the space age
Are you aware that the first rocket that made it to space was actually built for war? The German V-2 A4 rocket, launched off the Baltic coast, achieved an altitude of almost 190 km – high above ...
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The V-2 Is About to Be Eclipsed as Germany's Largest Rocket
three classmates at the Technical University of Munich believed their student engineering project might hold some promise in the private sector. At the time, one of the co-founders, Daniel Metzler, ...