An upgraded version of one of the solid rocket boosters being used for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) experienced an ...

The new booster is is scheduled to launch on the ninth Artemis lunar mission in the 2030s — but there's a chance that it will ...

Still, Isar became the first in a new crop of European launch startups to launch a rocket theoretically capable of reaching orbit. Flush with cash ... Isar is leading in another metric, too. The ...

NASA recently built and tested an additively-manufactured—or 3D printed—rocket engine nozzle made of aluminum, making it lighter than conventional nozzles and setting the course for deep space ...

GET IT ON G E T I T O N In this image from video made available by Blue Origin, the New Shepard rocket lifts off from the company’s West Texas site on Sept. 12, 2022. An overheated rocket engine ...

Pictured above are conventional bell-shaped rocket nozzles—also known as a convergent-divergent nozzles—on the space shuttle Discovery.Inherent in its name, the nozzle converges down to a ...

Since at least the 1950s, rocket engineers have wondered whether another nozzle design, known as the aerospike, could be a more efficient way to send humans to the stars.

SpaceX has offered holiday greetings via a spot of synchronized rocket-engine nozzle steering. The quirky 65-second video — which includes the message: “Wishing you a warm holiday season and a ...

Vega-C rocket launching from the Kourou space base, French Guiana on December 20, 2022. Photo: JM Guillon (AP) ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An overheated rocket engine nozzle caused last year’s Blue Origin launch failure that has grounded flights for six months, the company said Friday.Jeff … ...

An overheated rocket engine nozzle caused the failure of this launch that has grounded flights for six months, the company said Friday, March 24, 2023. The vehicle was carrying experiments but no ...