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 ...

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Estes gave up two runs over 3.2 innings with two strikeouts and one walk in Sunday's win over the Dodgers. He has a 5.87 ERA with a 5:1 K:BB in 7.2 innings this spring. Estes is competing for a ...

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.

a frustum housing motors and an aerodynamic nose cone fairing. The twin solid rocket booster assembly is 177 feet tall. While originally planned to launch in September of this year, the Artemis II ...

Several of Ship's six Raptor engines conked out toward the end of ... Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! Spectators in the Bahamas spotted ...

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 ...

When you want to do this other mission I talked about, the booster has got to go all the way space and drop off a stage up there, still full of propellant ... SRM’s (solid rocket motor).

I’ve got like six Vulcans. I’ve got over a dozen Atlases. I have solid rocket motors, in the dozens.” During Vulcan’s second flight, one of the rocket’s solid rocket boosters lost a ...

The only tell-tale sign that the object had been a Falcon 9 rocket were the nine engines still intact. SpaceX usually successfully lands the first stage of their Falcon 9 rockets. But this one had ...