North Korea fires solid rocket motor. North Korea said Tuesday it had conducted the final ground test of a solid-fuel rocket ...

China completes second hot-fire test for new moon rocket, including engine restarts China conducted a rocket stage hot fire ...

Colorado-based engine maker Ursa Major has secured a nearly $35 million contract from an undisclosed US defence company for ...

How do you control a nuclear space propulsion system? Very carefully. To help with this, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

Ursa Major was awarded a $34.9 million contract from an undisclosed U.S. aerospace and defense company to deliver Draper ...

If it proves successful, CNTR could allow future vehicles to travel farther using less fuel. Traditional chemical engines produce about 450 seconds of thrust from a given amount of propellant, a ...

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves ...

Rocket Lab is gaining momentum as it prepares for the first Neutron launch, targeting a significant role in the US launch ...

Instead of using solid fuel elements, this innovative design uses liquid uranium fuel to heat the rocket propellant directly.

The Tianlong-3 is China's first commercial aerospace large liquid rocket expected to achieve a low Earth orbit payload capacity of over 20 tons. The model development started in March 2022, with a ...

HOTOL (which stands for Horizontal Take-Off and Landing) was a British-designed space plane developed in the mid-1980s. The aircraft was designed to be a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) vehicle that ...

The Cygnus XL spacecraft launched Sunday at 6:11 pm ET (22:11 UTC) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space ...