An upgraded version of one of the solid rocket boosters being used for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) experienced an ...

While the fate of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket hangs in the balance, the agency is pushing ahead with tests of new ...

Still, Isar became the first in a new crop of European launch startups to launch a rocket theoretically capable of reaching ...

Since at least the 1950s, rocket engineers have wondered whether another nozzle design, known as the aerospike, could be a more efficient way to send humans to the stars.

NASA recently built and tested an additively-manufactured—or 3D printed—rocket engine nozzle made of aluminum, making it lighter than conventional nozzles and setting the course for deep space ...

GET IT ON G E T I T O N In this image from video made available by Blue Origin, the New Shepard rocket lifts off from the company’s West Texas site on Sept. 12, 2022. An overheated rocket engine ...

Pictured above are conventional bell-shaped rocket nozzles—also known as a convergent-divergent nozzles—on the space shuttle Discovery.Inherent in its name, the nozzle converges down to a ...

Northrop Grumman has had a tough time with rocket nozzles in recent years. In 2019, a test motor for the company's now-canceled Omega rocket lost its nozzle during a test-firing in Utah.

Vega-C rocket launching from the Kourou space base, French Guiana on December 20, 2022. Photo: JM Guillon (AP) ...

A fault in a nozzle caused the failure of the European Vega C rocket's second-ever flight, a commission concluded. "Gradual deterioration" of the rocket nozzle — and more specifically ...

SpaceX has offered holiday greetings via a spot of synchronized rocket-engine nozzle steering. The quirky 65-second video — which includes the message: “Wishing you a warm holiday season and a ...

The Dash Block 1 rocket test flight is tentatively scheduled for August 2025 in New Mexico. As part of this mission, Focus Graphite's purified P100 mesh graphite will contribute directly to ...