Demand for solid rocket motors is booming in part because missile makers are aggressively ramping up output of all sorts of ...

"Vulcan certification adds launch capacity, resiliency and flexibility needed by our nation's most critical space-based ...

There is long process to get the Space Shuttle into Orbit around the Earth! 📼Video Summary: There is a long process to getting the Space Shuttle ready to launch! If it lands Vandenburg Air Force Base ...

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.

The sprayed rocket propellant landed on a very hot rocket engine, creating flammable vapors. The fire was not seen earlier as the oxygen to cause the reaction is non-existent high up in the ...

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 ...

You know, we have flown a couple times. The second time we flew, we lost a nozzle off of one of the SRM’s (solid rocket motor). SRM’s, by the way, are a clever thing you do in rocket design ...

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.

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 ...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and RAFAEL Advanced Defense Systems have announced a partnership to establish Prometheus Energetics, a U.S.-based supplier of solid rocket motors (SRMs) and other ...