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

While the BOLE anomaly is not on the same scale as SpaceX's recent Starship explosion, it highlights that the New Space ...

Northrop Grumman saw some fiery drama during a test of a more powerful version of the solid rocket booster that would be used if NASA’s Artemis program ever gets to its ninth launch using ...

A test of a new rocket motor for NASA’s future moon missions went awry this week, with the full-size booster hurling a powerful blaze and scattering debris. Northrop Grumman, lead contractor for the ...

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 ...

PROMONTORY, Utah—Northrop Grumman and NASA on June 26 conducted the first test of its Booster Obsolescence Life Extension solid rocket motor amid uncertainty about the overall future of the Space ...

The BOLE boosters—destined for Artemis IX in the 2030s—depend on congressional budget negotiations reversing administration cuts to maintain viability beyond Artemis V missions.

Conventional accelerators use oscillating electric fields to drive charged particles to relativistic speeds. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, for example, uses radio-frequency oscillations to ...