WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Voyager Technologies a $16.5 million contract to continue development of a solid rocket motor thrust-control technology designed to ...

A private Chinese firm has successfully launched the world's largest solid-propellant rocket for a second time. The company, Orienspace, launched the gigantic 30-meter Gravity-1 rocket from a barge in ...

Nitrous oxide’s high-speed abilities don’t end with racing cars, as it’s a powerful enough oxidizer to be a practical component of rocket propellant. Since [Markus Bindhammer] is building a hybrid ...

Five people are dead and two others ‌injured after an explosion and fire on a South Korean production line for rocket ...

If SpaceX is going to fly Starships as often as it wants to, it’s going to take more than rockets and launch pads. First, there’s the sprawling factory that SpaceX has constructed at its Starbase ...

Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It’s worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history of human spaceflight next week. Fifty years ago, on July 15, 1975, NASA ...

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The international space industry is on a growth trajectory, but new research shows a rapid increase in rocket launches would damage the ozone layer. Several hundred rockets are launched globally each ...

The countdown clock at Starbase, Texas, was deep into its final seconds on May 21, 2026, when something went wrong in the ...

Ninety years ago today, on March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) launched the world’s first liquid-propellant rocket. His rickety contraption, with its combustion chamber and nozzle on top, ...