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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine11y
Wernher von Braun’s V-2 Rocket
In 1960, Columbia Pictures released a movie about NASA rocket scientist Wernher von ... There he oversaw the design of the V-2, the first long-range ballistic missile developed for warfare.
Hackaday7y
Books You Should Read: V-2 By Walter Dornberger
The entire history of the A-4/V-2 rocket program is laid out in this book ... having just a few of these long-range missiles would be inconsequential to the war. When Dornberger pressed for ...
Smithsonian Magazine6y
The Rest of the Rocket Scientists
As flightworthy V-2 missiles started rolling off the restored ... The men agreed that…the long-range rocket has made the conquest of space a definite possibility in the foreseeable future.” ...
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The German Space Program That Never Was
The wings allowed the rocket to generate lift when it reentered Earth’s atmosphere, thereby extending the operational range. It was believed that adding wings to the V-2 would have more than ...
The Hindu1mon
The rocket that launched the space age
The German V-2 A4 rocket, launched off the Baltic coast ... it was employed to deadly effect as it later became the world’s first long-range combat-ballistic missile. As the Americans advanced ...
The Daily Telegraph7d
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 launch from a Norwegian space port. The uncrewed Spectrum rocket was ...