But when NASA realized it could launch the same spacecraft on two smaller — and simpler — Saturn rockets (Earth Orbit Rendezvous mode), the larger, more complicated Nova design was pushed to ...

In its most extreme incarnation, the Nova rocket would have been able to lift 75 tons. Even so, the design would still have been too complicated for the capabilities of the American industry back ...

That's because, says Stoke, the design of the engines and the rocket they're meant to power allows for easy access. The two stages of the Nova rocket will be connected by means of a new interface ...

Nova. Cool name, actually. The Stoke Space Nova rocket. Has a nice ring to it. Or should we want to be more specific, the fully reusable Stoke Space Nova rocket. “Our vehicle designs build on ...

Stoke's Nova rocket is being designed to have a 100% reusable ... powered by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. These design elements are intended to make Nova "resilient to damage" in order ...

The company intends for the two-stage Nova rocket to be fully reusable, with both stages returning to Earth. To achieve a vertical landing, the second stage has a novel design. This oxygen ...

NASA records note that "Nova was the name used by NASA during 1959-62 to describe a very large booster in the range of 44-88 million newtons (10-20 million pounds of thrust). The rocket never ...

A few weeks ago, Stoke successfully tested the Nova rocket's main engine ... Similarly, the second stage engine has gone through a design upgrade to get it ready for flight.