NASA’s latest breakthrough, the Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE), could revolutionize space travel with up to 5% greater fuel ...

For the first time since its founding, nearly a quarter of a century ago, Blue Origin had reached orbit. The long-awaited ...

PARIS—France plans to demonstrate a higher-thrust rocket engine roughly on par with SpaceX's Raptor and Blue Origin’s BE-4 to avoid Europe falling further behind in the space race. Demand for ...

The Sea Dragon, a 490-foot behemoth, would have been built of inexpensive steel and launched from the sea, minimizing ground infrastructure.

This means 2028-2033. Rocket programs that depend upon completely new technology and that technology has to be scaled in size (millions of newtons of thrust or clusters of 250,000 newton engines) and ...

The successful flight to orbit of the Amazon founder’s powerful rocket suggests it could ... Liftoff. All seven engines at full thrust. One minute into flight. Now passing one minute 30 seconds ...

Moreover, a liquid-oxygen methane engine test was conducted on a vertical dual-station test stand for the high-thrust hydrogen-oxygen rocket engine in Laiyuan. The report stated that all the tests ...

On January 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first American astronauts into space, Alan Shepard and Virgil ...

Rocket technology predates space exploration by almost a thousand years, and although today's computerized multi-ton launch vehicles are a lot more capable than 11th-century gunpowder-assisted ...

This was a significant step in the early days of space exploration, as it involved the development of a 1.5-million-pound thrust rocket engine to power a future large space booster.