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

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Engineers didn't immediately acknowledge the issue during that broadcast, apart from one controller uttering "Whoa," followed ...

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

Three University of Colorado Boulder aerospace senior design teams had come together and successfully designed, built, and launched a 10’ tall, 50 lb. hybrid liquid/solid fuel rocket at Pawnee ...

The U.S. Navy successfully air-launched a Solid Fuel Integral Rocket Ramjet (SFIRR) from an unmanned vehicle for the first time, one step toward modernizing missile technology. The effort by Naval ...

It is powered by a traditional solid fuel rocket motor -- a self-contained propulsion system that doesn't require external air or additional fuel sources. Enter “Red Wasp” – its moniker a ...

Inevitably, the 120’s success reopened the long squabble among experts over the merits of solid fuel and liquid fuel in rocket-engine design.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. rocket propulsion startup Ursa Major said on Tuesday it was awarded a $12.5 million contract to build out production and testing for new solid fuel rocket engines.

The solid rocket booster can only be ignited once; it cannot be turned down until the whole fuel tank burns out, and, as a result, a stage cannot make a controlled landing — it simply falls down.