While NASA’s Artemis program may ultimately abandon the Space Launch System rocket, for now, Melbourne-based L3Harris is pushing forward with the manufacture of the powerful rocket’s core stage ...

Plasma engines could be the future of human space travel, and Russia’s “manetoplasma rockets” have the most ambitious travel goals ...

NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.

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

SpaceX currently controls nearly every rocket launch on Earth. With 98% of global orbital launches under its belt, Elon Musk's company has become the de facto gatekeeper to space. While China is still ...

Click to open image viewer. On December 13, 2018, the Virgin Galactic company used this rocket motor to power the first spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo rocket plane VSS Unity. It is a hybrid rocket ...

Ever since SpaceX made reusability the most desirable trait of a spacefaring operation, all the companies working in this industry have shifted their attention toward making hardware that can fly to ...

The Earth is much larger than most people realize. You need to use engines if you want to efficiently navigate large sections of the planet. Everything from cars to planes relies on engines, but they ...

Flames stream from New Frontier Aerospace’s Mjölnir rocket engine during a hot-fire test. (NFA Photo) Kent, Wash.-based New Frontier Aerospace says it has put its 3D-printed Mjölnir rocket engine ...

Timothy Hinerman, a program manager at Blue Origin, polishes up the nozzle of a BE-3U rocket engine during installation at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. (Museum of Flight Photo / Ted Huetter) Seattle’s ...