Hercules has been the subject of many experiments. From landing on aircraft carriers to retrieving falling film cannisters from spy satellites. However, one of the more prominent experiments was ...

After reaching a speed of 114 miles an hour with an RC plane, he wanted to go further and break that record. To do so, he looked towards rocket power, and started a new build. The design consists ...

The spaceplane will take off using a rocket-powered rail sled ... between flights – which is long compared to a regular plane, but not bad for a vehicle taking you to space.

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

Keeping a massive rocket burning fuel for months is problematic ... keeps going at its current speed and heading. If an aircraft loses power, that’s not the case. Obviously, the MIT engineers ...

GKN Aerospace, McLaren Automotive and U.K. partners chart the final chapter of the 4-year, £39.6 million ASCEND program, which accomplished significant progress in high-rate production, Industry 4.0 ...

an MD-3A aircraft’s starter unit had been position so as to blow hot exhaust onto the warhead of an MK-32 5-inch Zuni rocket ...

And while the odds of an out-of-control rocket colliding with an aircraft are low, the outcome could be catastrophic. In a study published in Scientific Reports on Jan. 23, Ewan Wright ...

The US Space Force first demonstrated this tactically responsive capability with a launch on Firefly's Alpha rocket in 2023. As part of this "Victus Nox" test flight, a satellite was encapsulated into ...

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has debuted an advanced large solid rocket motor to power the company’s air-launched, ...