A German startup named Isar Aerospace will try to launch its first rocket Saturday, aiming to become the first in a wave of ...

Demand for solid rocket motors is booming in part because missile makers are aggressively ramping up output of all sorts of ...

The FTX-40 test, or “Stellar Banshee,” served as a validation for modern hypersonic missile tracking satellites, upgraded ...

The recent test propels the stage-one solid fuel rocket motor towards full qualification. Credit: R. Nial Bradshaw/U.S. Air Force. Northrop Grumman and the US Air Force have conducted a full-scale ...

The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman Corporation completed a full-scale qualification static fire test of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile stage-one solid rocket motor on March 6.

The sprayed rocket propellant landed on a very hot rocket engine, creating flammable vapors. The fire was not seen earlier as the oxygen to cause the reaction is non-existent high up in the ...

An auxiliary propulsion unit (APU)—essentially a miniature second engine—on the upper stage ... there was an anomaly with one of the two solid rocket boosters powering the vehicle.

The explosion doomed an attempt to deploy mock satellites in the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk's Mars rocket program. Videos on social media showed fiery debris streaking ...

The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman have conducted a demonstration of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, stage-one solid rocket motor on Thursday at the company’s ...

You know, we have flown a couple times. The second time we flew, we lost a nozzle off of one of the SRM’s (solid rocket motor). SRM’s, by the way, are a clever thing you do in rocket design ...

The form which was signed at the site of the accident was in fact a form giving the tow truck company authorisation to take the car and charge storage – Fees which accumulate hourly. Juan Hanekom, ...