A prototype electric plasma rocket engine capable of significantly increasing thrust and efficiency has been unveiled by ...

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 have announced the development of a plasma-powered rocket engine that could potentially reach Mars within ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

Soviet engineers began work on large rockets in the 1930s. In May 1955, work began on the Baikonur launch site in central Asia. In August-1957, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile ...

Today Energomash delivers rocket engines solely to the United States. The Russian firm delivers RD-180 engines for Atlas III and Atlas V launch vehicles and RD-181 engines for Antares carriers.

The Samara-based Progress Space Rocket Center in the Volga area has received the first four tested engines for the third ... visas for members of the Russian delegation to UN event in New York ...