Stoke Space has announced the first successful hot-fire engine test for its Nova launch vehicle, which the company calls the "most robust, fully and rapidly reusable medium-lift rocket in the world." ...

On Tuesday, Stoke Space announced the firing of its first stage rocket engine for the first time earlier this month, briefly igniting it for about two seconds. The company declared the June 5 test ...

An artist's concept depicts the DRACO spacecraft, which will demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine. Nuclear thermal propulsion technology could be used for future NASA crewed missions to Mars.

When Blue Origin announced the BE-4 in 2014, they announced that it was the most powerful Methalox-burning engine ever conceived. Compared to the first version of the Raptor, which was the only ...

The engine removed from the Artemis II rocket—serial number E2063—was built at NASA's Stennis Space Center by Aerojet Rocketdyne, now part of L3Harris, a Florida-based tech company and defense ...

Lockheed Martin said Britain’s space industry has the potential to fuel faster economic growth, with the US aerospace company planning to work with UK firms and universities to meet growing ...

Japan's space agency aborted an engine test for the Epsilon S rocket on Tuesday after it exploded and caught fire, a repeated failure that will likely push the rocket's debut launch beyond the ...

Smoke and fire is seen during a combustion test of an engine for a new small Japanese rocket Epsilon S at Tanegashima Space Center, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan, Nov. 26, 2024.

The Rutherford engine is a key component of the Electron rocket and is the first 3D-printed engine to reach space. The printer that makes it, oftentimes as tall as an NBA center, works with ...

The Vinci upper stage engine is the Ariane 6 feature with the most allure. For one, it can be reignited, which allows a single Ariane 6 launch to deliver multiple missions on different orbits.

But aerogel isn’t strong enough to contain the fuel particles needed for the nuclear space engine without them breaking apart. That is why the design also calls for a superconducting magnent ...