Mission Highlight: United Launch Alliance's Atlas V delivers Kuiper 2 satellites for Amazon United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched its Atlas V 551 rocket on Monday, June 23, at 6:54 a ...

R-7: Soviet and US technology was driven on by the Cold War In the second of two features, BBC News Online looks at the legacy of the V-2 rocket - how the Americans and the Soviets raced to exploit ...

The Development of the V-2 Rocket. ... After the V-2 project was halted in March, von Braun fled the base where he and his team were stationed and surrendered to the Americans.

On the Rocket Coast. Hollanders on liberated Walcheren island told of the German’s careful guarding of V-2 launchings; the enemy hustled all civilians indoors when rockets were brought to the ...

The Atlas V rocket, standing 191-feet-tall and built by United Launch Alliance, climbed away from Space Launch Complex-3 on South Base at 1:49 a.m. The launch occurred minutes later than planned ...

Now, 80 years to the week since the last V-2 launch of World War II, Germany again has a homegrown liquid-fueled rocket on the launch pad. This time, it's for a much different purpose.

Between Sept. 8, 1944 and March 27, 1945, no fewer than 3,172 V-2s struck Belgium, France, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In all, V-2 strikes killed around 9,000 people. What follows is ...

Here’s what’s launching this week from June 23–29: ULA’s Kuiper 2 mission leads the way, with SpaceX Starlink flights, Rocket Lab’s return, and more to follow.