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 ...

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

A Virginia-based propulsion-focused company conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA’s Booster Obsolescence and ...

Crews successfully lifted into place giant rockets at the California Science Center, the first large components installed at the future home of the space shuttle Endeavour.

The Space Shuttle Orbiter was a revolutionary spacecraft that changed the way we think about space exploration. Designed for ...

The solid rocket boosters produced more than 80% of the lift during takeoff. The rocket motors will traverse about 160 miles from their current home at the Mojave Air and Space Port to the ...

Even now, a lot of launchers rely on solid rocket booster technology developed almost a century ago. So, let's take a quick look at the evolution of solid rocket boosters in the paragraphs below.

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 never fly.

Eleven years after Space Shuttle Endeavour made its 12-mile journey across the streets of Los Angeles, two huge solid rocket motors (SRMs) arrived Wednesday at the California Science Center ...

Six months prior to the Challenger disaster, booster rocket engineer Roger Boisjoly had written to his managers at NASA contractor and Utah-based rocket manufacturer Morton Thiokol, warning of the ...

The two side boosters of the Space Shuttle were also solid rockets. Once the solid booster is ignited, it cannot be stopped.