the agency considered a larger rocket called Nova. The necessary launch vehicle for the heavier Direct Ascent mission profile, this mind-blowingly large rocket was never built. The Saturn V was ...

Like something called Nova, an umbrella term for a series of rocket designs that were intended to push humans to the Moon, and potentially even to Mars. The Nova idea was born back in the late ...

The company calls its upcoming Nova launch vehicle the "most robust, fully and rapidly reusable medium-lift rocket in the world." Stoke Space has announced the first successful hot-fire test of an ...

It operates with a modular liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen (LH2/LOX) rocket engine. In terms of payloads, Nova will to carry up to 3,000kg to LEO (low Earth orbit). This is when reusing the stage. It ...