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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According to a NASA Crew-10 press briefing, SpaceX quickly got to work removing the engine and investigating ... As it flies into the night sky, the rocket will travel southeast from the launch ...

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.

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship sits on the pad after it’s test flight from Starbase was scrubbed in Boca ...

Houston-based Venus Aerospace, meanwhile, is developing a rocket-based combined-cycle propulsion system that combines a rotating detonation rocket engine with a ramjet.

Steyr will also produce the inverters, while the motor casings are being cast at Landshut. Just as different engine architectures better suit different applications, so BMW’s using a mixed ...

On Monday, the Australian Space Agency said it was expecting a Russian rocket's re-entry into international waters off the south-east coast of Tasmania between 9am on March 3 and 11am on March 7.

During launch in February, a Falcon 9 upper stage failed to execute the usual engine burn to ensure that the rocket’s remains would splash down in the ocean. Instead, it remained in orbit.