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While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its colossal Starship spacecraft during its seventh flight test, the mishap is typical of leading-edge experiments in rocketry presaging a spaceflight revolution, says a leading American space scholar.
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Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
So far in the industry table stakes of orbital missions, Blue Origin had not entered the serious rocketry game, as the U.S. launch market remains dominated by SpaceX, followed by Rocket Lab, United Launch Alliance, and Firefly Aerospace.
—Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
The precision engineering behind the maneuver is being hailed as a transformative step in reusable rocketry.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
And a good bit of Germany’s wartime rocketry efforts and those of the Chinese 1,000 years ago.
—Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
So far in the industry table stakes of orbital missions, Blue Origin had not entered the serious rocketry game, as the U.S. launch market remains dominated by SpaceX, followed by Rocket Lab, United Launch Alliance, and Firefly Aerospace.
—Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
The precision engineering behind the maneuver is being hailed as a transformative step in reusable rocketry.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
And a good bit of Germany’s wartime rocketry efforts and those of the Chinese 1,000 years ago.
—Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Rocketry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rocketry. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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rocketry
noun
rock·et·ry
ˈräk-ə-trē 
: the study of, experimenting with, or use of rockets
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