A group of Kingston University in London engineering students have developed a rocket engine powered by an unusual but highly ...

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

Was the B-47 Stratojet just too good for its own time, or did its revolutionary engineering compel an entire generation of pilots and designers to reconsider what was possible and survivable in ...

Still, Isar became the first in a new crop of European launch startups to launch a rocket theoretically capable of reaching orbit. Flush with cash ... Isar is leading in another metric, too. The ...

Conventional accelerators use oscillating electric fields to drive charged particles to relativistic speeds. The Large Hadron ...

Honda just demonstrated the first potential Japanese launch vehicle that could do much the same. In this test, Honda launched ...

Moving a small engine from Germany to the U.K. already takes “two to three weeks,” Kayser tells me. That’s why Leap 71 is in talks with governments in Dubai, Singapore, and New Zealand to co ...

When Rocket Lab unveiled the Rutherford engine at the 31st Space Symposium in Colorado, it looked like any other space engine. It wasn’t. Rocket Lab manufactured the Rutherford via additive ...

Firefly’s two-stage Alpha rocket stands on the launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of the launch of a payload for customer Lockheed Martin. [Courtesy: Firefly Aerospace ...

A small rocket that took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday morning ended up in the Pacific Ocean north of Antarctica after a mishap occurred a few minutes into the launch. Firefly ...

Firefly developed the Alpha rocket to deliver small satellites into space. The Alpha rocket’s maiden launch in September 2021 ended dramatically seconds after blasting off from Vandenberg.

The Alpha rocket itself is classified as a small-lift launch vehicle capable of carrying more than 2,200 pounds of cargo to orbit. Firefly to conduct investigation with Space Force, FAA after 'mishap' ...