Private space company Stoke announces a new design for a rocket engine that could make the Nova launcher's second stage ...

In preparation for its eighth Starship launch, SpaceX is finishing up preflight shakedowns for the megarocket's first stage, ...

New Glenn, which has been in development for about a decade, can carry 50 tons (45 metric tons) of payload to low Earth orbit ...

NASA has just tested a game-changing rocket engine that could revolutionize space travel. The Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) uses supersonic shockwaves to create a more efficient combustion cycle, ...

Since then all the advances have been in making rockets larger and more efficient through innovations peripheral to the rocket engine itself. There are alternatives to chemical rockets ...

The tests involved two 120-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engines and one 18-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engine. The institute noted that this marks a major advancement in the country ...

Rocket Lab launched 16 rockets in 2024, 60% more than the 10 it launched in 2023. Rival SpaceX launched far more rockets -- 138 -- but its growth rate from 2023 was slower. Fully-loaded Rocket Lab ...

The vehicle's first stage will land vertically, similar to a Falcon 9 rocket, and the second stage, which has a novel metallic heat shield and engine design, will also land back on Earth.

At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New Glenn. The flames illuminated night into day at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Last month, it shared video of a successful test of its first-stage rocket engine. The cash will help it build its new facilities at Florida’s historic Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.