Bryan K. Smith, chief of the Exploration Vehicle Project Office at NASA's John H. Glenn Research Center, provides the following explanation. A rocket works by exchanging momentum. Both the mass of ...

Rocket Lab enjoyed a banner 2019, putting six rockets into space, and has about a dozen more launches scheduled for this year. Its success has placed immense pressure on companies such as Astra ...

ON A FOGGY midsummer morning 54 miles northwest of Santa Barbara, California, SpaceX engineers hustled through a ritual they’d been through before. They loaded a Falcon 9 rocket with tens of ...

Stratolaunch will use four different air-launched rockets. The updated launch offering from Stratolaunch includes the following vehicles: Pegasus: With its existing track record of over 35 successful ...

There are many types of rockets used by militants. There's the classic bazooka --its official name the M9A1 Rocket Launcher-- the RPG-7 anti-tank grenade launcher, the more modern AT4, the Carl ...

It turns out that all kinds of rockets produce these emissions, but some types of vehicles produce more than others. Rockets that run on solid propellants produce a higher amount of alumina ...