The new booster is is scheduled to launch on the ninth Artemis lunar mission in the 2030s — but there's a chance that it will ...

Officials are investigating an unexpected explosion that occurred during a solid rocket booster test in Utah last week, ...

NASA recently tested the largest rocket motor ever built in Box Elder County last week. But during the harsh, two-minute-long ...

As the August launch date for NASA's first Artemis lunar mission approaches, Northrop Grumman has released a dramatic video of a full-scale static fire test of the giant solid-fueled Flight ...

One of the two solid rocket booster aft skirts that launched STS-128 on Aug. 29, 2009, is set to fly again with the left side Artemis 1 solid rocket booster 13 years later. (Image credit: NASA) ...

Ten motor segments that make up twin solid rocket boosters of NASA's Space Launch System rocket are now at Kennedy Space Center, the first sign that stacking the 320-foot moon rocket is on track ...

Related: Artemis 2 astronauts train for emergencies with Orion spacecraft ahead of 2025 moon launch (photos) These two solid rocket boosters will help heft the 322-foot (98-meter) SLS to space ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation and NASA successfully conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor, known as Flight Support Booster-2. The five-segment solid ...

The SLS rocket's two solid-fuel boosters consume 5.5 tons of propellant per second. The heat generated by the boosters during their two minutes of operation, if converted into electricity, would ...