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Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| HyPrSpace | |
|---|---|
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| Industry | Space |
| Founded | 2019 |
| Headquarters | Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France |
Number of employees | 130 (2026)  |
| Website | hypr-space |
HyPrSpace (Hybrid Propulsion for Space) is a rocket startup, founded in 2019, in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. It develops orbital (Orbital Baguette-1/OB-1, pronounced Obi-wan) and suborbital (Baguette One) launch vehicles and hybrid propulsion systems.[1][2][3][4]
In 2022, the company raised €1.1 million to develop its rocket.[4][5] In 2024, as part of a consortium with the companies CT Ingénierie, SpaceDreamS, and Telespazio France, it raised €35 million to develop their launcher Orbital Baguette One (the Le Projet Agile de Développement d'Accès à l'espace 1—PADA1—project). Sixty percent of the funding was from the French government as the winner of the France 2030 program supported by the State.[6][2][7][3][8][9][10][11]
Baguette One is a 7 metres tall, single-stage suborbital rocket, with a payload capacity of 300 kilograms.[2] The first suborbital mission is planned for 2027.[12] Baguette One will launch from DGA Essais de missiles, a missile testing site in mainland France.[13][14] Orbital Baguette-1 (OB-1) is a 16 metres tall micro-launcher with a payload of 250 kg to 400 km low Earth orbit (LEO).[1][15][8][9][16]
The hybrid engine uses solid fuels (including HDPE) in combination with a liquid oxidizer and doesn't need a turbo pump.[6][17][16][9][4][11] On 11 July 2024, the first hot fire test of its Terminator hybrid rocket engine was completed with success.[18][19][20][15] In December 2024, HyPrSpace announced a successful hot test in the second Terminator testing campaign.[21]
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HyPrSpace (Hybrid Propulsion for Space) is a rocket startup, founded in 2019, in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. It develops orbital (Orbital Baguette-1/OB-1, pronounced Obi-wan) and suborbital (Baguette One) launch vehicles and hybrid propulsion systems.
The Guiana Space Centre (French: Centre spatial guyanais; CSG), also called Europe's Spaceport, is a spaceport to the northwest of Kourou in French Guiana, an overseas region of France in South America. Kourou is located approximately 500 kilometres (310 mi; 270 nmi) north of the equator at a latitude of 5°. In operation since 1968, it is a suitable location for a spaceport because of its near equatorial location and open sea to the east and north. At CSG, space launches are conducted by several European private companies and government agencies working together. The CSG land itself is managed by CNES, the French national space agency. The launch infrastructure built on the CSG land is owned by the European Space Agency (ESA). Private companies design and produce the rockets, and operate the launches including planning missions, handling customer relationships and overseeing the team at CSG that integrates and prepares vehicles for launch. As of 2026, two rockets are launched from CSG: Vega C, a medium-lift launch vehicle and Ariane 6, a medium to heavy-lift launch vehicle.
FD1 (Flight Demonstrator #1) is a suborbital rocket demonstrator developed by the Italian company Avio and the European Space Agency (ESA) to test the MR10 methalox engine as well as various reusable rocket-related technologies like grid fins and in-flight engine reignition. The vehicle's integration was completed in September 2026 and it is expected to fly no earlier than 2027. It will be launched from a temporary launchpad at the Salto di Quirra test range on Sardinia. It is expected to reach a maximum altitude of around 70 km and then splash down around 20 km from the launch site and be recovered. The MR10 engine is expected to be used on the future Vega E rocket's upper stage.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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