While the 1950s was a time of truly unusual and fast-paced innovation in military aerospace, one of the more bizarre projects ...

When a liquid-fuel rocket takes off, it can switch its gas jet from side to side, correcting any tendency to veer off course. But solid-fuel rockets have no separate combustion chamber ...

NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

SpaceX's gigantic Starship rocket has been "lost" just minutes into its seventh test flight. The 400ft rocket - the biggest and most powerful in the world - soared from Boca Chica, south Texas ...

Once the countdown clock was halted, they immediately began draining all the fuel from the rocket. Blue Origin did not immediately set a new launch date, saying the team needed more time to ...

Who's ready for a late-night rocket launch? Weather permitting, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift the first of two next-generation Airbus-built satellites into orbit to provide communications for ...

The fourth Space Coast rocket launch of 2025 was set for Friday morning, yet for undisclosed reasons was pushed back towards the end of the window. SpaceX had confirmed they were targeting launch ...

Rocket sirens sounded across Tel Aviv and central Israel following the launch of the missile. MDA paramedics were deployed to search an area of a reported rocket strike, the national emergency ...

More specifically, the rocket propellant consists of both fuel and oxidizer. The fuel is typically something flammable, usually hydrogen, methane or kerosene. The oxidizer is usually liquid oxygen ...

Advertisement The rocket ... fuel), New Glenn will lead to significantly less waste and cost," Blue Origin said on its mission webpage. The first stage booster rocket is powered by seven liquid ...

This is the first failed launch of an Epsilon rocket. The solid-fuel rocket lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, at around 9:50 a.m., JAXA said.

The rocket system's upper stage appears to have ... Musk later added: "Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough ...