The rocket in question was driven by a powerful Russian engine unlike any ever built in the States. Although this particular engine was new, the design dated back to the space age. By the early ...

Russian scientists at Rosatom's Troitsk Institute are developing a plasma propulsion system that could change space travel. The new plasma rocket engine is poised to accelerate spacecraft to ...

MOSCOW, June 6. /TASS/. The firing tests of Russia’s RD-181 engines held before the launch of an Antares carrier rocket on May 21 this year proved the possibility to use them multiple times ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo., March 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Following years of development and completing a comprehensive certification ...

Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos is considering exporting RD-180 rocket engines to other countries, apart from the United States MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/. Russia’s State Space ...

Russian scientists have announced the development of a plasma-powered rocket engine that could potentially reach Mars within a few months. According to the Russian news outlet Izvestia ...

The Telegraph reports that Russian deputy prime minister ... Manufacturers of the Soyuz rocket, and the RD-180 liquid fuel engine that powers the American Atlas V rocket, Energomash is under ...

However, after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 ... after which small engines quickly stabilize the rocket. Only then are the ...

Russia’s Soyuz rocket has returned to flight ... This resulted in thrust termination – the rocket’s engines being shut down as a safety measure – and triggered the spacecraft’s automated ...

Among the investors was André-Hubert Roussel, former CEO of ArianeGroup, who oversaw the development of Europe’s only ...