The 156-foot-long five-segment solid rocket motor produced upwards of 4 million pounds of thrust during the test.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

PROMONTORY, Utah — NASA will conduct the first full-scale test of its most powerful solid rocket booster motor Thursday, ...

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.

The largest solid rocket motor in the world, the Flight Support Booster-2 is 154 ft (47 m) long and composed of leftover booster segments originally built for the Space Shuttle program.

Each solid rocket motor makes up most of the length of the 149-foot solid rocket boosters. At liftoff, the white boosters were set underneath Endeavour’s wings and produced more than 80% of the ...

What is a solid rocket booster, and why is it such an effective way to power space launchers? Discover some facts about this technology's history, basic work principles, and future potential for u ...