Rockzip Highballoons Reaches One Third Of Its Kickstarter Goal In Six Days
Aerospace start-up, Rockzip Highballoons has has raised over 30% of its $15,000 goal from 125 crowdfunding backers to commercialize its first model of highballoons (high-altitude balloons), which will be commissioned as floating "space satellites" ... and done so in just six days.
The upcoming flight test of NASA's Orion spacecraft will be a mission of firsts. This new crew vehicle, making its debut on Exploration Flight Test-1, will become the first of its kind in four decades to venture beyond low-Earth orbit. The mission also marks the first time a spacecraft designed to carry humans will be lofted to orbit by a modern-day expendable launch vehicle.
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