TOKYO (AP) — The engine for a new flagship small Japanese rocket burst into flames Tuesday during a combustion test, causing no injury or damage to the outside but destroying the engine and ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

closely held private firm that makes small rocket engines and rocket systems. How small? Small enough to fit in a backpack: Estes is a storied company dating back to the 1950s, known for its model ...

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit early Thursday, in a critical milestone that comes some 25 years after the billionaire founded the company with the goal of reducing ...

The small rocket failed to put a satellite into orbit ... and measures for preventing a recurrence have been established, the engine of the improved Epsilon S exploded during a combustion test ...