While traditional rockets have gotten us into space for decades, newer tech is on the horizon, like this plasma engine that ...

Up to four SpaceX Starlink satellites are falling to Earth daily, sparking concern over space debris and pollution.

Solid Rocket Motors allow extended range and customized thrust profiles with the same propellant and the same size rocket motor.

A former astronaut’s Houston-based company got a boost for its alternative rocket propulsion system and disclosed its flight-readiness timeline.

It doesn’t occur too often that Arizona skies may be staging the brief spectacle of a rocket slicing into the upper ...

The two announcements highlight RTX’s parallel work on both air-breathing and solid rocket propulsion technologies through its businesses. RTX made two propulsion announcements on Sept. 24, 2025, ...

With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites.

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a winner of the 2025 ...

Colorado-based engine maker Ursa Major has secured an order for its developmental Draper rocket powerplant. The propulsion start-up on 17 September said it had received a $35 million contract from an ...

Its LC-3 launch complex on Wallops Island, Va., opened last month. Rocket Lab's Neutron rocket will launch out of this brand-new location. The company boasts an end-to-end space business -- from ...

Welcome to Edition 8.10 of the Rocket Report! Dear readers, if everything goes according to plan, four astronauts are less than six months away from traveling around the far side of the Moon and ...

Essentially, a nuclear rocket engine is a reactor that has hydrogen running through it as a propellant, which is heated to an astonishing 3,000 K (2,727 °C, 4,940 °F), giving it almost twice the ...