Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

Central Texas-based Firefly Aerospace ended its first moon mission on Sunday after its Blue Ghost lander was cast into ...

More recently, the company started developing two other products in parallel: a Hall-effect electric thruster for spacecraft and a second-stage hybrid rocket engine. “Pulsar has built a ...

VDR2 offers a single engine solution from Mach 0 to Mach 6. This marks the first successful Rocket-Based Combined Cycle test. The engine architecture was unveiled in October at UP.Summit and combines ...

In addition to holding the propellant for its four rear-mounted rocket engines, the core is the backbone of the rocket, supporting the launch vehicle stage adapter, interim cryogenic propulsion ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. At this point, being fast is beside the point for the ...

The conversation with Bruno focuses on the development of the Vulcan rocket and its strategic importance. Bruno recounts the initial decision to move away from Russian RD-180 engines due to ...

The joint plant will develop and produce small jet and rocket engines with “the goal to penetrate the U.S. military market in order to supply jet engines for small airborne platforms,” the ...

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 ...

It retired the small rocket seen here in this 2022 file ... Earth orbit powered by 13 of the 3D-printed Aeon R engines running on the liquid oxygen-methane mix that burns blue on launch.