White Rocket How all U.S. Air Force pilots since 1968 have met their Mach. ... 14 feet long, weighing 4,000 pounds, and developing 18,000 pounds of thrust with afterburning; ...

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

The nozzle liberated energetically from the motor around 10 seconds before the burn ended, and there appeared to be some ...

NASA followed last week's low-key engine test with the test-firing of a solid-fueled booster at Northrop Grumman's rocket ...

Utah has a significant role, being the "factory" for the propulsion systems used by the SLS rocket. The new booster rocket ...

a black and white rocket launches into the night sky, the thrust from its engines casting light on the launch pad. SpaceX has launched one Bandwagon mission already — Bandwagon-1 , which sent up ...

PROMONTORY, Utah—Northrop Grumman and NASA on June 26 conducted the first test of its Booster Obsolescence Life Extension ...

NASA built a new mega-rocket for the next lunar astronaut era, and it launched for the first time on Wednesday. The Space Launch System (SLS) is 17 years and an estimated $50 billion in the making ...

NASA's initiatives to pioneer next-generation space technologies are also hit hard in the White House's budget proposal. If the Trump administration gets its way, NASA's Space Technology Mission ...