Before Saturn V, which was the largest rocket ever built, ... (Earth Orbit Rendezvous mode), the larger, more complicated Nova design was pushed to the back burner.

This post-Saturn Nova would have been much larger than the vehicle that powered the Apollo program, with eight F-1 engines pushing the rocket up in the sky, and the spacecraft on top of it to its ...

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 ...

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.

The design is based on the Andromeda 1, ... The two stages of the Nova rocket will be connected by means of a new interface that allows the heat shield of the Andromeda 2 to protect stage one as ...

That was the Nova. While the Saturn V produced 7.5 million pounds of launch thrust (the current SLS generates 8.8 million), the Nova would have taken off with an astounding 12 million pounds of ...

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

The company continues to make technical progress, Lapsa said. A few weeks ago, Stoke successfully tested the Nova rocket's main engine, Zenith, in a vertical position.