In March 2025, a missile launched from a test range in the Pacific arced into the upper atmosphere, separated its rocket ...

A Texas-based company has completed the inaugural flight test of a 3D-printed hybrid rocket engine system. The flight test, called GMLRS-class Firehawk Analog (GFA), demonstrated directional stability ...

Rotating detonation rocket engines work differently than traditional rockets to maximize thrust while using less fuel—an ...

A US aerospace and defense company has taken a huge step towards operational hypersonic ...

Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup Portal Space Systems, which is taking an idea ...

While NASA’s Artemis program may ultimately abandon the Space Launch System rocket, for now, Melbourne-based L3Harris is pushing forward with the manufacture of the powerful rocket’s core stage ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has been awarded a ...

Astrobotic, a developer of lunar landers and suborbital rockets, has successfully tested an advanced rocket engine that could ...

Chemical engines put the first satellite into space, the first man on the Moon, and have sent the first deep space probes hurtling out of our solar system. However, chemical rockets have reached the ...

What do Iranian drones have in common with Russian hypersonic missiles and China's DF-21D "aircraft carrier killer" rocket? All three pose a clear and present danger to U.S. forces and their allies, ...

ABL Space Systems said that a fire broke out after an aborted static-fire test in July fed by fuel leaking from two first stage engines. Credit: ABL Space Systems WASHINGTON — ABL Space Systems said ...